Welcome to the Standing Committee on Planning
AASHTO's Standing Committee on Planning (SCOP) investigates, studies, and reports on transportation planning activities. Comprehensive transportation planning is conducted by the State Departments of Transportation for a variety of policy, programming, and project level activities, including:
- Legislative requests for transportation system performance
- Urban and statewide transportation systems
- Corridor and site planning for individual facilities.
To help serve the transportation planning community and share best-practices, SCOP:
- Reviews and evaluates methods and information essential to transportation planning
- Promotes and encourages interaction among transportation stakeholders
- Reviews national problems, existing and proposed policies, Federal guidelines, and other regulations related to transportation.
Events
On October 22 and 23 at the AASHTO Annual Meeting in Palm Desert, CA, the FHWA is sponsoring an Executive Roundtable on Performance-based Planning and Programming. At this exchange, members of AASHTO's Standing Committee on Planning will have the opportunity to better define system performance as it relates to the transportation planning process. More information will be available soon. Please contact Michelle Maggiore with questions and visit the SCOP Meetings page and AASHTO Annual Meeting page for updates.
Latest News from the
AASHTO Journal
Transportation Planning
A newly released Government Accountability Office report examines the nation's metropolitan planning organizations and their performance and progress in terms of transportation planning activities. View the full story in the September 11 AASHTO Journal.
Our Members
SCOP Members are leaders in statewide transportation planning. We recognize the importance of updating our membership roster to recognize the achievements of our members in their respective organizations. Please contact AASHTO SCOP liaison Michelle Maggiore, mmaggiore@aashto.org, with changes to the SCOP Memberscommittee roster.
Reporting Committees:
- Subcommittee on Research
- Subcommittee on Asset Management
- Subcommittee on Policy Analysis
- Subcommittee on Institutional Change
- Subcommittee on Data
- Subcommittee on Capacity Building
Technical Programs:
Shared Ideas
We recognize that many other individuals in the state departments of transportation and numerous other federal, state, and local agencies and the private sector are actively involved in the comprehensive transportation planning process. To help share best practices among stakeholders, SCOP created statewideplanning.org. Statewideplanning.org is used by SCOP to share resources, best practices, and other information to further improve the practice of statewide transportation planning.