The Transportation Department provides transportation planning and technical assistance to the Old Colony communities and region. With expertise in safety, transportation funding, complete streets, transit planning, and context-sensitive design, the transportation staff works to promote a safe, reliable, and multi-modal transportation system that meets the diverse needs of the region and its people.
The Transportation Department conducts transportation planning studies and other initiatives in the areas of transportation safety, roadway and traffic conditions, congestion management, bicycle and pedestrian planning, transit planning, and transportation resilience planning.
Old Colony Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
The Transportation department serves as staff to the Old Colony Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), the regional governing body established by federal law to oversee regional transportation planning and recommend the distribution of transportation funds across the Old Colony Region as well as the Old Colony MPO advisory group, the Old Colony Joint Transportation Committee (JTC). Under the direction of the Old Colony MPO, transportation staff prepare federal certification documents required to allow use of federal transportation funds in the region including the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), the Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) and the Public Participation Plan (PPP).
The Old Colony Metropolitan Planning Organization operates under the following four Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs): 3C Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) relating to the Comprehensive, Continuing, and Cooperative transportation planning process, the Performance-Based Planning and Programming Process MOU, the Conduct of Transportation – Air Quality MOU, and the Urbanized Area Designation MOU.
In accordance with the March 2018 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) relating to the comprehensive, continuing, and cooperative transportation planning process, the Old Colony Planning Council (OCPC) is authorized to elect the two representatives of Boards of Selectmen/Town Councils to serve as Local Signatories on the Old Colony MPO. The process is available here.
Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Signatories
Robert Sullivan, Mayor, City of Brockton
Richard J Quintal, Jr., Chair, Select Board, Plymouth
Vacant, Board of Selectmen, West Bridgewater
Daniel Salvucci, Vice Chairman, Board of Selectmen, Whitman
Gina Fiandaca, MassDOT Secretary and Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Gulliver, MassDOT Administrator, Highway Division
Michael Lambert, Administrator, BAT
Rebecca Coletta, Acting President, OCPC
Old Colony Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
The purpose of the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) is to encourage, shape, promote and sustain transportation choices, economic competitiveness, the safe and efficient management, operations, and development of a cost feasible intermodal transportation system that will serve the mobility needs of people and freight, while reducing transportation-related fuel consumption and air pollution. The LRTP sets the long-range framework for the region, not only through specific projects, but also through the consensus on general direction and policies.
The LRTP includes both long-range and short-range strategies/actions that reflect the community’s values and vision for improving the region’s transportation system that will foster and sustain a resilient economically competitive and prosperous region.
This 20-year transportation vision and needs assessment plan is prepared every four years.
2020-2040 Old Colony Long Range Transportation Plan
Old Colony Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
Prepared annually, the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is a five-year program of capital improvements and transit operational assistance that reflect the needs of the regional transportation system. Under federal regulations, the TIP must be constrained to available funding, be consistent with the Long Range Transportation Plan, and include an annual element of projects to be advertised in the first year.
Implementation of the projects and services programmed in TIP help to make progress towards the achievement of the performance targets for Safety (PM1), Bridge and Pavement Condition (PM2), System Performance Measures (PM3), and Transit Asset Management (TAM) State of Good Repair (SGR).
FFY 2025-2029 Old Colony Transportation Improvement Program
Per 23 CFR 450.344, the following is a listing of obligated projects for FFY 2022 from the FFY 2022 – 2027 Transportation Improvement Program
Old Colony FFY 2022 Annual Listing of Obligated Projects
FFY 2022 Annual Projects Obligation List
The Old Colony MPO is required, under the authorized transportation bill, to publish an annual listing of projects which funds have been obligated in the preceding year as a record of project delivery and progress report for public information and disclosure.
FFY 2021 Annual Projects Obligation List
FFY 2022 Annual Listing of Obligated Projects
Old Colony Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP)
The purpose of the Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) is to ensure that a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive (3C) approach to planning for transportation needs is maintained and properly coordinated.
The UPWP identifies the planning priorities and the transportation activities to be carried out during the federal fiscal year. The UPWP includes a description of the planning work and resulting products, who will perform the work, time frames for completing the work, the cost of the work, and the source(s) of funds. Transportation activities identified and implemented through the UPWP lead to actions that to guide future transportation policy and project investment decisions.
FFY 2022 Old Colony Unified Planning Work Program
FFY 2023 Old Colony Unified Planning Work Program
Old Colony Public Participation Plan (PPP)
The Public Participation Plan (PPP) provides the process and protocols by which the Old Colony MPO implements its inclusive and accessible public involvement and cooperative decision-making transportation planning process. The Old Colony MPO strives to share information and collect ideas through engagement, public meetings, and proactive strategies in order to inform the planning process and the regional transportation system. and to identify social, economic, and environmental impacts of proposed transportation policies, projects, and initiatives. The Plan is reviewed at a minimum once every five (5) years.
The PPP is a living document that evolves to assist the Old Colony MPO to deepen and sustain its work to engage diverse community members throughout the Old Colony region. Therefore, the Old Colony MPO will modify its public participation methods and activities over time, based on ideas and feedback from community members and the evaluation of its public participation effectiveness and any amendment to the Plan will be given a 45-day public comment period.
2021 Old Colony Public Participation Plan
Old Colony Coordinated Public Transit Human Services Transportation Plan (CHSTP)
The Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan (CHSTP) identifies the region’s unmet human-service transportation needs, describes the current transportation network and the transportation providing agencies and provides provide strategies for meeting these needs, and prioritizes transportation services for funding and implementation. The CHSTP Plan is prepared by the MPO to allow organizations in the region to be eligible to receive funding from the Federal Transit Administration’s Section 5310 transit funding program. This program provides capital and operations funding for services for the elderly and persons with disabilities and is prepared every four years.
2019 Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan
Performance Based Planning
Transportation Performance Management (TPM) is a strategic approach which connects investment and policy decisions to help achieve safety, mobility, and system performance goals.
Performance measures are quantitative criteria used to evaluate progress towards those goals. Performance measure targets are the benchmarks against which collected data is gauged. Transportation Performance Management has been integrated into the transportation planning process framework of Federal Planning Factors, National Performance Goals and Federal Planning Emphasis Areas
The TIP and UPWP integrate MassDOT’s and the MPOs’ performance measures and link transportation-investment decisions to progress toward achieving performance targets. Implementation of the projects and services programmed in TIP help to make progress towards the achievement of the performance targets for Safety (PM1), Bridge and Pavement Condition (PM2), System Performance Measures (PM3), and Transit Asset Management (TAM) State of Good Repair (SGR).
The MPOs, MassDOT, and providers of public transportation jointly agree and have developed specific written provisions for cooperatively developing and sharing information related to transportation performance data, the selection of performance targets, the reporting of performance targets, the reporting of performance to be used in tracking progress towards attainment of critical outcomes for the MPO regions, and the collection of data for the MassDOT Asset Management Plan.
Transportation Planning Certification Review Report – February 2020
The activities of the Old Colony MPO are reviewed by the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration.
Planning Certification Review Report
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