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Roles of the MPO and the RPO <br />MPO <br />LEGISLATION <br />1962 Federal Highway Act: required urbanized areas > 50,000 to <br />adopt transportation plans to qualify for federal transportation funds. <br />Section 134(a) of Title. 23 United States Code directs metropolitan <br />planning organizations, in cooperation with the State, shall develop <br />transportation plans and programs to develop transportation systems, <br />embracing various modes of transportation in a manner which will <br />efficiently maximize mobility of people and goods within and through <br />urbanized areas and minimize transportation fuel consumption and air <br />pollution. <br />Agreements <br />C.F.R. Title 23 Cht.1 § 450.310 Metropolitan planning <br />organization: <br />Agreements. <br />(a) The responsibilities for cooperatively carrying out transportation <br />planning (including corridor and subarea studies) and programming <br />shall be clearly identified in an agreement or memorandum of <br />understanding between the State and the MPO. <br />(b) There shall be an agreement between the MPO and operators of <br />publicly owned transit services which specifies cooperative <br />procedures for carrying out transportation planning (including corridor <br />and subarea studies) and programming as required by this subpart. <br />DCHC MPO (Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />Organization) Created by: <br />North Carolina Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />Organization Memorandum of Understanding for Continuing, <br />Cooperative, and Comprehensive Transportation Planning between <br />the Governor of the State of North Carolina, City of Durham, Town of <br />Chapel Hill, Town of Carrboro, Town of Hillsborough, County of <br />Durham, County of Orange, County of Chatham, and the_ North <br />RPO <br />LEGISLATION <br />Session Law 2000-123 authorized NCDOT in cooperation with <br />local elected officials to establish Rural Transportation Planning <br />Organizations -. A voluntary organization of local elected <br />officials or their designees and representatives of local <br />transportation systems formed by a memorandum of <br />understanding with the Department of Transportation to work <br />cooperatively with the Department to plan rural transportation <br />systems and to advise the Department on rural transportation <br />policy. <br />RPOs established for the general purpose -of: <br />• Developing long-range local and regional multi-modal <br />transportation plans in cooperation with MPOs and NCDOT; <br />• Providing a public forum for participation in the rural <br />transportation planning process; <br />• Prioritizing suggestions for transportation projects for the <br />STIP(State Transportation Improvement Program); and <br />• Providing transportation-related information to local <br />governments and other interested parties. <br />TARPO (Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization) <br />Created by: <br />Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperative, <br />Comprehensive and Continuing Transportation Planning and <br />the Establishment of a Rural Planning Organization for the <br />County of Chatham and the participating municipalities therein; <br />the County of Moore and the participating municipalities therein; <br />the County of Lee and the participating municipalities therein ; <br /> <br />~, <br />u <br /> <br />