8. 8
Theme 1: Working Environment Increasingly Complex
Challenges to Relevance
• More needs = more
expectations
• Not just more issues,
but more cross-
cutting issues
• Straining of limited
MPO capacities
9. 9
Theme 2: Resources and Funding Flat or Dwindling
Challenges to Relevance
• Less money but more
needs
• Federal government
seeking process
streamlining
• Accountability and
performance
measurement a
priority
• More use of funds
outside MPO purview
10. 10
Theme 3: Traditional Boundaries Blurring
Challenges to Relevance
• Few “pure”
transportation issues
• Metro/urban areas
evolving into mega-
regions (and micro
mega-regions)
• Information
technology changing
how we travel, work
and live
13. 13
Building Relevance
Framing The Options
Continuing
Disruptive
Inter-
connected
Understanding
the nature of
the challenges
to relevance is
essential to
addressing
them.
15. 15
Building Relevance
• Future actions of
federal government on
MPO size, composition,
requirements remain
unresolved
• MPOs that are
proactive today stand
best chance of staying
relevant and vital to
their regions
16. 16
You've got to be very careful if you
don't know where you are going
because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
17. THANK YOU
Peter Plumeau, Sr. Director
RSG, Inc.
180 Battery St., Suite 350
Burlington, VT 05401
pplumeau@rsginc.com
802.383.0118 x301
www.rsginc.com
Thank You
Editor's Notes
VICTIMS OF SUCCESS?
Evolution of issues since 1960s – additive, rather than substitution
Wicked problems conundrum
MPOs being forced beyond traditional issues footprint – competencies and turf considerations
Some of these are levers MPOs themselves can pull
Others will require changes to law, regulation or perspectives
None are what I would consider easy to do – but they are essential going forward
Strategic management of resources and agencies
Integrated methods, strategies and organizations
Robust, adaptive people and tools
