AAMPO Plans and Programs

The Strategic Asessment is an analysis of the region’s adopted land use and transportation plans. The assessment estimates the likely outcomes of adopted plans and trends over the next 20 plus years, to the year 2040. The assessment estimates important outcomes of regional interest including livability, congestion, mobility, and reducing climate pollution. In addition to estimating outcomes from adopted plans, the report identifies potential actions that the region may choose to consider to achieve outcomes that are important to the region. The report is intended to help inform the region’s decision-makers and the public as they consider how to update the region’s land use and transportation plans.

The Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) is a long-term blueprint for the MPO’s regional transportation system. The RTP builds upon local transportation system plans and addresses regional transportation needs over a 20-year period. The RTP includes policies and goals which, along with a travel demand model and local input, help to prioritize transportation investments.

After a robust public outreach process and technical review, the RTP was adopted in May 2018.

Recommendations in the plan include:

• Safety improvements that provide highest return of investment for the AAMPO area, especially in areas with high injury-crash rates.
• Transit access and service improvements.
• Active transportation projects that can provide significant quality of life benefits for low costs.

The RTP examines what exists today, forecasts demand, identifies and analyzes future options, and makes recommendations for a balanced and efficient transportation system. The project also collaborates between agencies and jurisdictions, builds on good decisions that have already been made, and creates a common vision for the future of transportation in the area.

• 2018-2040 Regional Transportation Plan
• Albany Transit Development Plan
• Environmental Considerations Report

The Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) outlines transportation planning activities to be completed by the MPO each fiscal year. UPWPs are developed and approved by the MPO Policy Board each spring for the upcoming fiscal year. Planning activities outlined in the UPWP are typically funded with metropolitan planning funds provided by the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration.

• AAMPO FY2023-2024 UPWP as Approved April 26, 2023
• AAMPO FY2022-2023 UPWP as Amended September 23, 2022
• AAMPO FY2022-2023 UPWP as Approved March 23, 2022
• AAMPO FY2021-2022 UPWP as Approved April 28, 2021
• AAMPO FY2020-2021 UPWP as Approved April 22, 2020
• AAMPO FY2019-2020 UPWP as Approved April 24, 2019
• AAMPO FY2018-2019 UPWP as Approved April 30, 2018
• AAMPO FY2017-2018 UPWP as Approved April 26, 2017
• AAMPO FY2016-2017 UPWP as Approved April 27, 2016
• AAMPO FY2015-2016 UPWP as Approved on April 8, 2015
• AAMPO FY2014-2015 UPWP as Amended December 11, 2014
• AAMPO FY2013-2014 UPWP as Approved April 24, 2013

A Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) identifies all federally-funded surface transportation projects in an MPO area during a set period of fiscal years. Projects in the TIP seek to achieve identified priorities of regional impact, safety for all modes of transportation, and preservation and maintenance of the regional multi-modal system. The TIP is regularly amended to reflect changes in project scopes and timelines, or when new projects are funded.

• AAMPO MTIP Revision Policy, Effective August 2021
• FFY21-24 TIP as Amended May 27, 2020
• FFY18-21 TIP as Amended April 24, 2019
• FFY2015-2018 TIP as Amended November 21, 2016
• FFY2015-2018 TIP as Adopted March 23, 2016
• AAMPO FFY2015-2018 STP Funding Announcement
• AAMPO FFY2015-2018 STP Application
• Interim TIP as Amended February 19, 2016

To increase transparency, MPOs are required to publish an annual list of projects from the Transportation Improvement Program for which federal funds have been obligated. These reports address project obligations for Federal Fiscal Years, which cover the period of October 1 through September 30 of the following calendar year.

• AAMPO Obligated Projects FFY 2021
• AAMPO Obligated Projects FFY 2020
• AAMPO Obligated Projects FF2019
• AAMPO Obligated Projects FFY 2018
• AAMPO Obligated Projects FFY2017
• AAMPO Obligated Projects FFY2016
• AAMPO Obligated Projects FFY2015
• AAMPO Obligated Projects FFY2014
• AAMPO Obligated Projects FFY2013

Active public involvement is a key component of an MPO’s continuing, cooperative and continuous planning effort. Public involvement is directed by a Public Participation Plan (PPP) and a Title VI/Non-discrimination Plan. Implementation of these plans should allow for the provision of early, timely and complete information public notice, full public access to key decisions, and continuing involvement of the public in all MPO planning and program activities. The purpose of this work element is to improve, strengthen and fulfill all these needs. The AAMPO Public Participation Plan was adopted on July 23, 2014 after a 45-day public comment period, and is available at the link below. A summary of public involvement during the development of the PPP is available HERE.

• AAMPO Public Participation Plan

The AAMPO Title VI/ Non-Discrimination Plan was adopted on August 27, 2014 following a 45-day public comment period.  The Title VI Plan and complaint procedure are available on the AAMPO Title VI Program Page.