What is the RTP?
The
Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) is the long-range transportation plan for the NFRMPO region. We update the plan every four years to use current information to evaluate our current system; identify the needs to address congestion, accessibility, and overall mobility; and ensure a fiscally constrained plan to address the need.
Our most recent RTP was adopted in September 2023. The plan can be downloaded from our RTP page. The Connected Communities 2055 RTP is currently under development and will be the newest version of the RTP.
What is considered in the RTP?
The RTP considers the entire transportation system: roadways, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, transit, freight, and emerging technology. As part of the process, we look at what exists today, what local communities have planned over the next two decades, what funding is available, and what projects have a regional significance.
The other major thing we consider is how this plan impacts the region’s air quality – we need to conform to National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and consider greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
![A woman waiting at the Centerra Bustang stop](https://nfrmpo.org/wp-content/uploads/Mobility-Hub-Centerra.jpeg")
What is in the RTP?
The Connected Communities 2055 RTP will have seven chapters that address the following topics:
Introduction - Explains the role and structure of the NFRMPO, introduces the Planning Factors and other federal requirements of the Plan, discusses the Plan's vision, goals, and objectives, and provides a summary on public outreach for the Plan.
Regional Context - Provides a regional overview of the transportation system, travel demand management (TDM) efforts, demographics, housing, and economics.
Safety and Resiliency - Includes an overview of the various safety initiatives and plans in the region, a regional crash data analysis, a summary of transit security policies, and transportation-related hazard mitigation information and risk.
Emerging Technology - Discusses various transportation-related emerging technologies in the region and across the state.
Regional Transportation Vision - Contains the visions for our regional corridors, land use model scenarios, and travel demand model scenarios.
Funding and Financing - Summarizes the TIP, the process of funding projects, and revenue sources and estimates for funding programs.
Projects - Contains the projects with identified funding out to 2055, an environmental analysis of these projects, and a list of projects that do not have identified funding.
The Plan will also have many appendices, including but not limited to the Plan's public outreach analysis, the System Performance Report, and various air-quality reports.
![A portion of the Poudre River Trail in Windsor](https://nfrmpo.org/wp-content/uploads/1000003219-scaled.jpg")
