Statewide & Nonmetropolitan Transportation Planning/Metropolitan Transportation Planning Final Rule Webinar

Learn more about the Final Rule on Statewide and Nonmetropolitan Transportation Planning and Metropolitan Transportation Planning, published on May 27, 2016. The final rule implements changes to the planning process, including:

• requiring a performance-based approach to planning
• a new emphasis on the nonmetropolitan transportation planning process, by requiring states to have a higher level of involvement with nonmetropolitan local officials and providing a process for creating regional transportation planning organizations 
• adding a structural change to the membership of large metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to include transit provider representation 
• adding a framework for voluntary scenario planning
• implementing new authority for integrating the planning and environmental review processes as well as programmatic mitigation plans

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) are co-hosting this webinar to further explain the rule and provide the first technical assistance for implementing it. Register at http://bit.ly/1O7MDuc.