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Introduction

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that gathers and analyzes information for the Congress. In preparation for the upcoming reauthorization of the federal surface transportation program, GAO was asked to examine metropolitan planning organizations' (MPOs) transportation planning. As part of our review, we are surveying all MPOs as well as conducting site visits with selected MPOs. Results from this survey will help inform Congress about MPOs’ current roles and responsibilities, the challenges MPOs face in conducting transportation planning, federal oversight of MPOs, and possible ways to improve transportation planning. This information will be critical as Congress considers legislation to reauthorize the federal surface transportation program. We plan to issue a report to the Congress in the late summer of 2009. In our report we will present the results of this survey in summary form and will not identify individual MPOs. If you are not the appropriate person to answer these questions, please let us know who the correct person is by providing us with their name, title, and e-mail address so that we can resend the survey log in information to the appropriate individual. (GAO contacts will pop up when you click on the "?" at the bottom of the screen.) Please complete this questionnaire within two weeks of receiving it. If you wish, you may coordinate the completion of the questionnaire with others in your organization who may have additional knowledge of the subject matter covered in our questions. In testing this questionnaire, we found that it took approximately 45 minutes to complete. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

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Full Report: GAO-09-868

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