Congestion Management Process (CMP)

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A CMP is a systematic process for managing congestion that provides information on transportation system performance. It recommends a range of strategies to minimize congestion and enhance the mobility of people and goods. These multimodal strategies include, but are not limited to, operational improvements, travel demand management, policy approaches, and additions to capacity. The CMP advances the goals of the DVRPC Long Range Plan and strengthens the connection between the Plan and the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP).

The CMP, as included in current federal transportation regulations, enhances the existing concept of a Congestion Management System (CMS) with emphasis on being an ongoing cycle and other refinements. It identifies congested corridors and multimodal strategies to mitigate the congestion. Where more single-occupancy vehicle capacity is appropriate, the CMP includes supplemental strategies to reduce travel demand and get the most value from the investment. It completes its cycle evaluating the effectiveness of transportation improvements, coordinating with other planning processes, and providing updated analysis of the performance of the transportation system as it goes back around.

How Does the CMP Help the Delaware Valley?

The CMP improves connections in transportation planning that will help with transportation connections in the real world. The benefits of an ongoing CMP include:

• More focused use of limited federal transportation funds where they can do the most to help the region meet its goals
• Enhanced use of each mode of transportation for what it does well, improved connections among modes, and between transportation, land use, economic development, and environmental planning
• Encouragement for a wide range of stakeholders to participate and coordinate. The advantages include data, guidance on helping projects conform to the CMP, priority for conforming projects in the TIP and LRP update processes, help keeping track of progress, and opportunity for stakeholders' studies to be more widely used.
• A program for regular monitoring and evaluation of system performance
• Technical resources useful for a range of projects, such as ongoing analysis of the effectiveness of strategies
• CMP is required by federal regulation