Blog - Articles published 2024

By Tegin Teich, Executive Director of the staff of the Boston Region MPO
The choices made today about building public transit and roadway infrastructure will have lasting effects for decades. With that responsibility in mind, planners and leaders must make the best use of available data and methodologies when making investments to create the equitable, safe, modern, and multimodal future desired. Travel demand modeling is an important method at our disposal. As a public agency committed to creating tools that are useful companions in transportation planning, design, and decision-making, the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization has been working over the last two years to develop a new travel demand model, TDM23.

The MPO created an online resource for Performance-based Planning and Programming.

Transportation decarbonization efforts can help reduce the impacts of climate change, prevent extreme weather events, slow rising sea levels, and mitigate environmental catastrophes. Reducing our dependence on fossil fuels can also reduce pollutants in the air, improving air quality and public health.

$7.5 million grant to accelerate regional Vision Zero efforts and enhance roadway safety through pilot projects

Interdisciplinary project to focus on reducing heat exposure for people who walk and bike in the Boston area

We recently launched a Trending Topics page on bostonmpo.org to make some of our most recent and most requested research easily accessible. The first topic highlights transportation finance.

The Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is one of eight applicants selected nationwide to receive a Mobility, Access, and Transportation Insecurity (MATI) grant to explore strategies to improve people’s mobility and access to reliable transportation options. The award amount is $150,000.