Over 400 federally required regional bodies coordinate billions in annual U.S. transportation spending. Researchers created the first complete inventory of governance attributes for all 404 MPOs, focusing on board responsibilities, membership, and transit operator presence. The dataset was compiled by Gian Claudia Sciara and last updated in March 2024.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the relationship between transit agency board representation and regional transportation spending based on governance attributes.
- Mapping the distribution of voting practices and membership structures across U.S. metropolitan planning organizations.
- Studying the composition of regional planning boards based on data about elected officials and state agency representatives.
- Correlating MPO governance models with transit agency data from the Federal Transit Administration's National Transit Database.
Strengths
- Covers all 404 Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in the United States.
- Represents the first complete inventory of MPO governance attributes according to the description.
- Includes complementary data from the Federal Transit Administration's National Transit Database.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Data was collected by the authors to the greatest extent possible and supplemented with Federal Transit Administration data.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-03-18 08:53:30; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Urbanized areas across the United States.