Tools & Resources

The 2016 Active Transportation Plan was created as part of the 2016-2040 Columbus Area Metropolitan Transportation Plan to help communities identify regionally significant projects that include pedestrian, bicycle, and transit accommodations.

These are some helpful tips for older adults to get started biking.

This guide is designed to help Central Ohio employers explore, develop, and enact telework (work from home) options that could benefit their businesses.

The Columbus Metro Bike Map gives you a color-coded view of the user-friendliness of on-road bike facilities in the core of Central Ohio.

Complete Streets are roadways designed to safely and comfortably accommodate all users.

To help members make data-driven decisions on transportation-related projects, MORPC maintains an equipment library where members can check out equipment designed to collect pedestrian and bicycle volumes, roadway operating speeds, and project geometries.

The Federal-aid system is identified by the functional classification of routes, which determine the route's eligibility for federal funding. Generally, federal highway funding cannot be spent on roads that are not at least classified as a “minor collector” in the urban area or a “major collector” in the rural area. Federal-aid eligible routes are identified in color on the map. "Local" routes are not eligible for federal aid. Federal functional classifications are assigned based on a roadway’s role in providing access and mobility in the region.

The goal of the Focused Effort was to receive valuable input from the bicycling community regarding comfort level of existing conditions and the Mobility Innovation Test on 3rd Street, and to deliver that information into a report that can be referenced for future mobility innovations in Central Ohio and other communities.

Funding and grant opportunities that are available to local communities and organizations.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) refers to an assortment of technologies, system infrastructure, and transportation management concepts such as coordinated signal systems, dynamic message signs, ramp meter signals on the freeway, CCTV traffic cameras, and transit related systems.

Maps of the 15-county region and the entire state of Ohio show the fee amount in various jurisdictions based on Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles data.

The Local Safety Initiative is a state-funded program that allows us to provide direct technical assistance to local agencies on transportation safety planning and project development