The diversity of Indiana's urbanized areas requires Indiana's MPOs to serve a wide variety of functions. As a group, most fill a core of common functions focusing on land use and transportation planning and programming. These functions include:

Long Range Land Use Forcasting

• Population, employment, and other socio-economic forecasts
• Preparation of Long Range Plans for land use and public facilities

Long Range Transportation Planning

• Highway planning
• Mass transit planning
• Bicycle and pedestrian planning

Technical (Operational) Services

• Analysis of short term transportation problems (intersections, parking, access, etc.)
• Planning services for transportation projects
• Maintenance of transportation and land use databases
• Roadway capacity analysis, environmental impact analysis, signal justifications, traffic studies, accident data collection, street inventories, railroad inventories
• Mapping and GIS services
• U. S. Census data affiliates
• Air quality planning

Programming of Transportation Improvements

• Assistance to local jurisdictions in development, design, funding of projects
• Coordination of project implementation
• Project prioritization
• Present and future needs analysis

Coordination

• Provide a forum for policy and technical discussions in a region
• Assist communication between various levels of government
• Provide an educational process for elected officials and the public

Click on the links below to view more in-depth descriptions of an MPO's role and responsibilities with planning for its local public agencies and coordination with the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT).

General planning Sites

American Planning Association

Indiana Chapter of the American Planning Association

Planetizen

National Organizations

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO)

Pedestrian & Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)

National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)

National Associaion of Regional Councils (NARC)

Transportation for America (T4A)

Federal Agencies

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Federal Transit Administration (FTA)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)

State Agencies

Indiana Association of Regional Councils (IARC)

Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT)

Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA)

Indiana Regional Cities Initiative

Indiana MPO Council

A Report by the Indiana MPO Council

Air Quality

CTPP

AASHTO: Census Transportation Planning Products

Red Flag Analysis

Examples:

Funding

Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality (CMAQ) Funding Eligibility

Consultant Fee Proposals

Federal Transit Administration

Highway Planning

Transportation Demand Management

Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) Model