2055 Metropolitan Transportation Plan - Destination 2055
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This webpage hosts technical information for the development of the 2055 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). The Destination2055nc.org webpage hosts information intended for a general audience.
Process
The MTP takes approximately 18 months to update, and generally occurs every 4-5 years. The following outlines the steps in the update process.
Over the past decade, our region has been experiencing unprecedented population and economic growth. As we continue to attract residents, businesses and visitors for the next 30 years, we must provide them with an equally resilient and efficient transportation network. Our research triangle transportation planning agencies (CAMPO and Triangle West TPO) are updating the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) - Destination 2055 to guide our next three decades of transportation infrastructure investments in roads, highways, freight, transit services, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
Staff at both planning agencies have been working in lock step with elected officials, jurisdictional staff, and the greater community in every step of this update to the MTP.
We began this process by determining the plan’s Goals & Objectives. Once those goals were established, our teams gathered and analyzed an incredible amount of socio-economic and travel demand data from which our Deficiency and Needs Analysis was conducted. This analysis lent itself as our baseline for developing the three crucial alternative scenarios: Plans & Trends, Shared Leadership, and All Together. We are currently in the development of these alternative scenarios. After their completion and presentation to our community partners and stakeholders, a preferred scenario will be debated, refined, and voted on. This preferred scenario will eventually become the 2055 MTP.
While the 2055 MTP remains in development, this website will present the planning agencies most recent progress towards the top of the page:
Where are we now?
Preferred Scenario
On June 18, 2025, the CAMPO executive board voted to select the “All Together” scenario as the 2055 MTP preferred scenario. At this time CAMPO staff, along with regional partners at Central Pines Regional Council will work to analyze the fiscal feasibility of this scenario’s universe of projects.
More information on this process to come…
Where have we been?
Alternatives Analysis - Evaluate Potential Solutions
Three (3) scenarios demonstrating potential futures for the Triangle region's transportation system were recently developed, modeled, and presented to our community stakeholders . Each scenario is evaluated against performance measures tied to the eight (8) goals which were approved by the CAMPO and Triangle West TPO boards earlier in the MTP development process as well as our baseline scenario – the deficiency and needs analysis. Information about the status of the current transportation network and each future alternatives scenario will be posted on the Destination 2055 website.
Community input is always a critical step in providing a public voice during the alternatives analysis phase. The public engagement activities on the alternative scenarios concluded on May 26, 2025. At the conclusion of the alternatives analysis phase, decisions will be made regarding which scenario attributes to carry forward into a “preferred" plan. You can learn more about the specifics of the current alternatives analysis by visiting this website.
Deficiency and Needs Analysis
The MPO staff has begun development of updated draft scenario alternatives for the 2055 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (2055 MTP/CTP). The first of these scenarios is the Deficiency Analysis. This is a baseline scenario for the future that is used to help analyze the various scenarios we use in the Alternatives Analysis stage. The Deficiency and Needs Analysis includes our future projected growth with only our existing and committed transportation network and is used to help inform our forecasts for population, employment, and travel changes between today and our ultimate 2055 horizon year during the Alternatives Analysis. More information is available on the 2055 MTP's Deficiency and Needs Scenario Website.
Goals & Objectives 
CAMPO and TWTPO (formerly DCHC MPO) adopt Goals and their related Objectives to guide the overall 2055 Metropolitan Transportation Plan development process. Following community engagement, which included an online survey, results were presented to the CAMPO and TWTPO boards at their Joint Board meeting on January 31, 2024, and to CAMPO's Executive Board at their February 2024 meeting.
The CAMPO Executive Board approved the Goals and Objectives for use in the development of the 2055 MTP at their meeting in November 2024.