The Metropolitan Transportation System

The adoption of Destination 2030 in 2001 updated the components and definition of the region's Metropolitan Transportation System (MTS). The plan emphasizes an integrated multi-modal transportation system and describes its regionally significant modal components that are crucial to the mobility needs of the region. The MTS serves as a planning tool used to identify regional transportation problems, and analyze and develop regional solutions. As such, the performance of regional MTS facilities and services must be monitored over time.
Facilities in the MTS include those from the following seven transportation systems, supported by Transportation System Management services.

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Metropolitan Transportation System (MTS) Reports

The Regional Council's MTS performance monitoring framework has been designed to analyze various system components within separate reports. This allows each report to individually consider and resolve measurement questions appropriate to the particular MTS component in a manner that is inclusive of the interests of system operators.

Reports Available Now


Future Reports
It is anticipated that future reports will focus on the following MTS components:
  • Regional Non-Motorized System
Once reports have been completed for all components of the MTS, the measurement sections of the separate reports can be assembled into a single Performance Monitoring Report, which can be replicated in future years. The benefit of this staged approach is that methods, data availability, measurement selection, and in some cases data collection for each MTS component can be individually addressed while allowing the development of an overarching framework and reporting process to proceed where data and reporting issues are already resolved.