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The Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program
Planning for a Better Tomorrow
Assisting transportation officials and staff to resolve increasingly
complex issues related to transportation needs in their communities.
 What's New
10/12/04
Philadelphia, PA (April 8, 2004 and June 16, 2004)
A Two-Phase Peer-to-Peer Roundtable on Potential Transit Projects in the Nine-County Philadelphia Region
10/5/04
Hagerstown, MD (September 24-25, 2003)
Solution to Rural Issues Through Partnerships: A Community-Centered Approach Transportation Solutions for Rural Communities
8/20/04
 The MPO Database
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8/12/04
Peer Report: Fort Smith, AR (April 21- 23, 2004)
Best Practices for Small and Medium Sized Metropolitan Planning Organizations
Peer Report: Atlanta, GA (May 5, 2004)
Identifying and Engaging Low Literacy and Limited English Proficiency populations in the Transportation Decisionmaking Process
8/11/04
The Roundtable on System Performance Measurement in Statewide and Metropolitan Transportation Planning was held October 7-9, 2003. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Office of the Secretary, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) sponsored the roundtable. The roundtable brought together national experts to discuss lessons learned in practical applications of transportation performance measures for systems planning and the role of measures in the decision-making process.
Our Mission
The Transportation Planning Capacity Building (TPCB) Program is designed to help decision makers, transportation officials, and staff resolve the increasingly complex issues they face when addressing transportation needs in their communities. This comprehensive program for training, technical assistance, and support is targeted to State, local, regional, and tribal governments, transit operators, and community leaders.
About the Program
TPCB 2003 Annual Report (PDF)
Frequently Asked Questions
 About the Program
Purpose:
The Transportation Planning Capacity Building (TPCB) Program is a
collaborative effort of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) with various public
and private organizations. Broadly speaking, it exists to help
state and local transportation staff meet their complex political,
social, economic, and environmental demands. On a practical level,
the TPCB Program provides information, training, and technical
assistance to help transportation professionals create plans and
programs that respond to the needs of the many users of their
local transportation systems.
Goals:
- Provide background information for transportation officials to enhance their understanding of the transportation planning process, their role within the process, and its relationship to community and societal goals.
- Strengthen transportation planning staff skills in the areas of consensus building, understanding policy guidance, and grasping the technical elements of their job through training and peer-to-peer exchanges;
- Provide a means for disseminating commendable examples of transportation planning practices across the nation; and
- Provide new metropolitan planning organizations and areas newly designated as non-attainment areas for air quality with information, training, and technical assistance.
Objectives:
- Gather and disseminate examples of effective transportation planning practices from across the nation.
- Act as a central clearinghouse for information and contacts within the transportation planning community.
- Create training programs and support peer-to-peer information exchanges that strengthen staff understanding of policy guidelines and of the technical elements of the planning process.
- Provide information, training, and technical assistance to states, local and tribal planning organizations, and transportation agencies.
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