Does the definition of new Metropolitan Areas by OMB affect MPOs?
• No. The critical definition that affects MPOs and TMAs is the definition of urbanized areas (see above). • Metropolitan Area Standards Review Committee submitted to OMB the draft standards for Metropolitan areas, and these were published in the Federal Register on August 22, 2000. Plans call for publication of the final standards before December 31, 2000. • Metropolitan Areas are based on accumulations of whole COUNTIES. Counties are put together based on the “economic interaction” between the counties, reflecting commute flows. • While these definitions will change reporting of data in some national reports, we see little impact to transportation. Because commuting flow is part of the equation in the definition of Metropolitan Areas, it helped keep the journey to work questions included in the Census 2000 long form.
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