NYMTC is developing its next federally required Regional Transportation Plan, titled Moving Forward, to become effective at the start of the next federal fiscal year on October 1, 2021. Updated every four years, the new Plan will cover all modes of ground transportation including roadways, railways, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, movement of goods, and special needs transportation. Moving Forward, with a horizon year of 2050, will provide a long-range framework for the use of federal transportation funding in NYMTC’s planning area.

In the Spring and Summer of 2020, when in-person meetings were no longer an option because of the COVID-19 pandemic,

all of the outreach activities were converted to virtual platforms. The unprecedented and multifaceted revised outreach program was undertaken over a three-month period from June through September 2020, featuring six on-line focus groups for underserved communities and users of specialized transportation services, seven web-based public workshops using polling software that were organized geographically, an on-line community engagement platform on the website (nymtc.org/planmovingforward) which collected input at the convenience of the participant, and a supplemental on-line survey targeted to demographic and geographic cohorts underrepresented in the initial outreach. Approximately 4,000 individuals provided input through this outreach program. 

At this time, a draft of Moving Forward is scheduled for a 30-day public review beginning in mid-June 2021. The NYMTC Council is scheduled to meet to adopt Moving Forward in early September.

The Congestion Management Process Status Report which examines roadway congestion in the NYMTC planning area, and a Transportation Conformity Determination which fulfills the requirements of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, will accompany the new Plan.