NYMTC

On a smaller regional scale, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) is the federally designated MPO largely for New York City, Long Island, and three outlying counties in the Lower Hudson Valley.

NYMTC has developed the state-of-the-practice, tour-based (rather than conventional trip-based) transportation model, Best Practice Model (BPM), to meet the federal requirements for long-range planning including conformity (air quality), sub-regional and corridor-level analyses.

New York Regional Regional Metropolitan transportation Transportation Transportation planning and Plan (RTP), Council (NYMTC) project Transportation coordination for Improvement New York City, Program (TIP), Long Island and Unified Work Lower Hudson Programs (UPWP).

According to NYMTC, the plans outline all of the transportation improvement concepts and projects in the region and recommend allocations of funding available for both the short and long term.

NYMTC noted that the Regional Transportation Plan, which includes transportation concepts and studies for the region through 2030, uses future socioeconomic and demographic trends to identify transportation needs; establishes a regional framework for future improvements and investments; and identifies potential resources to meet these needs.

NYMTC said the TIP, which essentially implements the first five years of the Regional Transportation Plan, includes more than $30 billion for roadways, bridges, transit systems, bikeways and pedestrian facilities.

NYMTC's voting members are the five suburban county executives, the New York City Planning Commission chairperson, the New York City Department of Transportation commissioner, the New York State Department of Transportation commissioner, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairperson.

The structure of the NYMTC leads to radical differences in representation, with Putnam County's 95,000 residents having the same official influence as Nassau's 1.3 million.