Discover How Transportation Planning Becomes Reality

Posted on: August 27, 2025 in Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), Public Involvement

How does transportation planning become reality? 

Learn the basics at our upcoming lunchtime webinar on September 11. Our experts will explain how they assess the region’s transportation needs for all modes, like walking, biking, transit, and vehicles.

You’ll learn how these different transportation modes are being planned for, how their costs are identified and what “cost-feasible” means and why it matters.

After the presentation, we’ll get a chance to hear from you and answer your questions.

Registration is required for this online presentation, and it is free and available up to the start time. Best of all, when you register, you can submit questions to our panelists beforehand, kickstarting our Q&A session.

Click here to register

This is the final of three online information presentations leading to the adoption of the 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). If you missed the first two webinars, you can watch them on our YouTube channel.

• Webinar #1: Future Technology & Trends
• Webinar #2: Community & Environment

How does the MTP fit in?

The factors we discuss in these webinars are crucial to our work in developing the 2050 MTP, which establishes the long-range vision for transportation in Central Florida. This plan is updated every five years to reflect the changing dynamics of the region and identify current and future transportation needs. The 2050 Plan is currently going through this process. We are examining the existing transportation system, establishing goals and objectives, and gathering public input.

Your ideas are a big part of the Journey to 2050. We have a variety of public outreach activities between now and December, when the 2050 Plan will go before the MetroPlan Orlando Board for approval. You can engage with us in many ways between now and then.

Please mark your calendar for the MTP public meeting on Monday, September 29. There, we will present our draft vision and will offer information stations for each section of the 2050 Plan — including public transit, active transportation, and safety — where we can answer your questions and gather your feedback.

If you have comments about the 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan, please email us at MTP@MetroPlanOrlando.gov.

For more information about the 2050 Plan, visit: MetroPlanOrlando.gov/2050