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ctions 2050 sets a goal to rebuild and modernize the region’s transportation assets in order to achieve and maintain a state-of-good repair. This is tough work for our state departments of transportation, as our aging infrastructure creates competing needs for maintenance funding. 

Based on information collected during CEDS Committee workshops in April 2023, the new EDA CEDS Guidelines, and current trends, DVRPC staff have developed Draft Goals and Actions for the FY 24 Growing Greater Philadelphia CEDS. These goals and actions will serve as the foundation of the regional economic development framework.

Connections 2050 envisions developing new and supporting existing places that are affordable and inclusive, provide multimodal and active transportation, and have safe and easy access to parks and open space. As part of this vision, the Plan sets a goal to foster racially and socioeconomically integrated neighborhoods and advance environmental justice for all the region’s inhabitants. A key strategy to reach this goal is to achieve equitable access to homeownership and the generational wealth-building associated with homeownership. 

Business Formation Statistics, a new data product provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, is now  included in DVRPC’s Tracking Progress trends. The Connections 2050 Plan seeks to foster innovation and a highly-skilled workforce, expand entrepreneurialism, encourage new business formation and growth, and support key economic sectors. Business formation statistics help quantify where we stand in achieving that goal. 

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis recently started estimating county-level Gross Domestic Product (GDP), giving us a first glance at economic activity for the region and our member counties. GDP more than doubled from 2001 to 2021 with a 105% growth rate. This was above Pennsylvania's 99% and below New Jersey’s 116% growth rates, and under the national growth rate of 141% over the same period.

View insights into the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic seen across a selection of the 16 indicators recently updated on Tracking Progress, DVRPC’s interactive dashboard for exploring Greater Philadelphia’s progress toward the Connections 2050 vision of an equitable, resilient, and sustainable region. 

Today is our official launch of #TrackingTuesday, which will feature content from Tracking Progress—DVRPC’s award-winning interactive dashboard for exploring Greater Philadelphia’s progress toward the Connections 2050 vision of an equitable, resilient, and sustainable region.

DVRPC launched its Bicycle Cyclical Count Program in 2014. The program collects and analyzes bicycle volumes to track trends at 150 different locations in the nine-county region. These locations were selected for their representative attributes, like having different types of bicycle facilities, such as multi-use trails, dedicated bicycle lanes, striped shoulders, sharrows, and in mixed traffic.

On February 1, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a historic $800 million in grant awards for 510 projects through the new Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program, a record amount of funding to improve roads and address traffic fatalities. DVRPC was awarded $1.47 million for its Regional Vision Zero 2050 Action Program.