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The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act of 2015 included a new planning factor for metropolitan planning organizations to enhance multimodal access to tourism destinations. To comply with this new planning factor, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission incorporated travel and tourism tasks into the Fiscal Years 2017 and 2018 work programs. The purpose of this effort was to understand……

El Plan de Participación Pública de la DVRPC: una estrategia para la participación ciudadana describe cómo la Comisión está cumpliendo con todos los mandatos federales de participación pública, y se actualiza periódicamente para reflejar las actividades de divulgación actuales de la Comisión, en particular el Grupo de trabajo de participación pública. Adoptado por última vez en 2018, este Plan de Participación……

DVRPC is reaffirming its demonstration of transportation conformity of the Connections 2045 Long-Range Plan, the FY 2018 TIP for New Jersey, and FY 2019 TIP for Pennsylvania. This reaffirmation confirms that the DVRPC Plan and relevant TIPs meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards requirements governing the 2015 ozone standard in the Philadelphia–Wilmington–Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE Ozone Nonattainment……

This report is a study of the regional inequities in crash incidence, using a correlation analysis to determine which federally protected classes (“communities of concern”) are at the greatest risk of severe vehicle crashes in the Greater Philadelphia region. Its main finding is that census tracts with above average rates of low-income, racial minority, ethnic minority, and disabled populations correlate……

The DVRPC Public Participation Plan: A Strategy for Citizen Involvement outlines how the Commission is meeting all federal public participation mandates, and is regularly updated to reflect the Commission’s current outreach activities, particularly the Public Participation Task Force. Last adopted in 2018, this revised Public Participation Plan adds the Planning Work Program to significant planning……

The King of Prussia Rail (KOP Rail) project is a proposed extension of SEPTA’s Norristown High Speed Line to the King of Prussia area of Upper Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Providing safe and convenient nonmotorized access to KOP Rail stations is one of the best and most cost-effective ways to maximize the overall usefulness of this transit investment and create value for Upper……

This document provides an overview of the methods and sources used to produce DVRPC’s Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Greater Philadelphia, 2015. The inventory itself may be found at: www.dvrpc.org/EnergyClimate/Inventory.htm

This study used best practices from the National Association of City Transportation Officials, Portland State University, and Portland Bureau of Transportation to develop a two-part geographic information system methodology that identified suitable streets to build neighborhood greenways in each of Philadelphia’s 10 city council districts. Neighborhood greenways are low-volume, low-stress streets that……

In 2018, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission completed a regional energy use and greenhouse gas emissions inventory for the nine-county DVRPC region. As part of this inventory DVRPC allocated both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions to individual counties and municipalities based on 2015 data.

Quickly view DVRPC's 2040 Municipal-Level Employment Forecasts with this easy-to-use interactive map. Simply click on the map to identify a municipality and compare five-year increments as well as absolute and percent change from 2015 to 2045.