Like all Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Texas, Austin’s CAMPO develops a short-term Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) every two years that ties together all regionally significant transportation projects in an attempt at a cohesive plan that meets long term vision and goals established in the longer Regional Transportation Plan process. A lot of the funding decision …
Dallas – Forth Worth, along with every other Texas MPO, adopted safety targets set by TXDOT that continue to project increasing deaths year-over-year. However, the Regional Transportation Council (RTC), the decision making body for the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), demonstrated initial steps towards meaningful advances in transportation safety. The council added an …
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Of the 10 largest Texas MPOs Farm&City investigated, the Alamo Area MPO (AAMPO), which covers the San Antonio region, seems to be most seriously pursuing Vision Zero – a deliberate approach to end traffic deaths. Along with every other Texas MPO, AAMPO adopted the TxDOT safety targets that assume a continuous increase in the total …
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