Blueprint Houston supports a comprehensive planning process for the city and the region and provides a forum for the community to collectively voice its vision of the kind of future we want our children to inherit. For this reason, Blueprint Houston co- sponsored with H-GAC the Envision Houston Region workshops in September and October, 2005.

The Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process: Key Issues
http://www.planning.dot.gov/

Part I: Overview of Metropolitan Transportation Planning

• What is the metropolitan transportation planning process
• What is the Metropolitan Planning Organization and its functions
• What are the relationships among the MPO ,the state DOT and other agencies involved in transportation planning
• What are the key documents produced by the metropolitan planning process
• How is federal transportation funding provided to metropolitan areas
• How do these funding processes affect MPO’s

Part II: Major Policy and Planning Issues

• Air Quality
• Asset Management
• Financial Planning and programming
• Freight Movement
• Land Use and Transportation
• Models and their Use
• Performance Measures
• Project development and the NEPA Process
• Public Involvement
• Safety
• System Management and Operations
• Title VI/Environmental Justice
• Transportation Demand Management (TDM)