Who Are We?

Federal legislation requires that any urbanized area with a population greater than 50,000 must have an MPO to plan for and make decisions on the use of federal transportation funding. MPOs ensure that expenditures for transportation projects and programs are based on a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive planning process. Among other functions and requirements, MPOs cooperate with state and public transportation operators to program federal funds for eligible transportation projects.

Voting members of NYMTC comprise elected or appointed representatives of its member agencies which include Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk counties; the New York City Departments of City Planning and Transportation; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), and the New York State Department of Transportation. NYMTC is advised by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority), New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit), and the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA), as well as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), and two administrations of the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT): the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

NYMTC is a forum for collaborative planning from a regional perspective. We facilitate informed decision‐making among our members by providing sound technical analysis and forecasts to focus the collective planning activities of NYMTC’s members to achieve a shared regional vision. The 10-county NYMTC planning area is divided into three Transportation Coordinating Committee’s (TCCs) to enable more localized coordination and planning around transportation needs. These planning efforts help ensure that the region is prepared to obtain the maximum federal funds available to achieve the shared regional goals of our member agencies for the future of the transportation system.