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Metropolitan Planning Organization. Collection, 1971-2010, n.d.

 Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0483

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of mostly photographs, slides, and maps. The Metropolitan Planning Organization of Lafayette, Louisiana donated the collection.

For a listing of all the maps in this collection, please see Special Collection staff.

Dates

  • 1971-2010, n.d.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

A metropolitan planning organization (MPO) is a federally mandated and federally funded transportation policy-making organization in the United States that is made up of representatives from local government and governmental transportation authorities. They were created to ensure regional cooperation in transportation planning. MPOs were introduced by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962, which required the formation of an MPO for any urbanized area (UZA) with a population greater than 50,000. Federal funding for transportation projects and programs are channeled through this planning process. Congress created MPOs in order to ensure that existing and future expenditures of governmental funds for transportation projects and programs are based on a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive planning process. Statewide and metropolitan transportation planning processes are governed by federal law.

Extent

4 Linear Feet (4 feet of materials in 5 boxes and one oversize folder)

Language of Materials

English

Title
Metropolitan Planning Organization Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Zack Stein
Date
04/27/2021
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository

Contact:
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031