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Title	History of MPOs : part II [Website]
Record ID	24229
Personal Name Creator	Solof, Mark
Corporate Creator	North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
Publisher	North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, Inc.
Publication Date	20031023
Abstract	This is the second in a four-part series on the history of metropolitan planning organizations. This online article traces the post-war developments in regional planning that set the stage for the formal establishment of MPOs in the early 1970s. A historic step in addressing the problems of rapid suburbanization came with the enactment of the Highway Act of 1962. It made federal highway aid to areas with populations over 50,000 contingent on the "establishment of a continuing and comprehensive transportation planning process carried out cooperatively by states and local communities." This required planning process--known as "three-C" planning for its continuing, comprehensive and cooperative features--established the basis for metropolitan transportation planning used to the present day. This article originally appeared in the December 1996 issue of the NJTPA Quarterly.
TRT Terms	Metropolitan planning organizations ; Regional planning ; Regional transportation ; Urban areas ; History ; Regulations ; Websites (Information retrieval)
General Subjects	MPO; New Jersey
Classification	NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Planning - Newsletters; NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Plans and Policy Statements; NTL - LAWS AND REGULATIONS - Federal Standards and Rules; NTL - LAWS AND REGULATIONS - U.S. Code of Federal Regulations; NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - PLANNING AND POLICY
Geographical Coverage	New Jersey
Resource type	Article
URL	http://njtpa.njit.edu/public_affairs/mpo_history/hist_mpo2.htm
Format	HTML
Language:	English
Database	Other Transportation Web Sites

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