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Regional Plan Association (RPA)

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The Regional Plan Association (RPA) is an independent, not-for-profit regional planning organization that improves the quality of life and the economic competitiveness of the 31-county New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region through research, planning, and advocacy. For more than 80 years, RPA has been shaping transportation systems, protecting open spaces, and promoting better community design for the region's continued growth. We anticipate the challenges the region will face in the years to come, and we mobilize the region's civic, business, and government sectors to take action.

The nation's most influential independent regional planning organization since 1922, RPA has a storied history but is more relevant than ever in the 21st Century. RPA's First Plan in 1929 provided the blueprint for the transportation and open space networks that we take for granted today. The Second Plan, completed in 1968, was instrumental in restoring our deteriorated mass transit system, preserving threatened natural resources and revitalizing our urban centers. Released in 1996, RPA's Third Regional Plan, "A Region at Risk," warned that new global trends had fundamentally altered New York's national and global position. The plan called for building a seamless 21st century mass transit system, creating a three-million acre Greensward network of protected natural resource systems, maintaining half the region's employment in urban centers, and assisting minority and immigrant communities to fully participate in the economic mainstream.

RPA's current work is aimed largely at implementing the ideas put forth in the Third Regional Plan, with efforts focused in five project areas: community design, open space, transportation, workforce and the economy, and housing.

Projects
Title Sponsor(s)
Long Island 2035: Building Public Consensus around a Sustainable Future, Phase I New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), Research and Innovative Technology Administration / USDOT (RITA)
Study of Goods Movement Through I-278 in NYC and NJ New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT)

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4 Irving Place, 7th Floor
10003 New York, NY
Website:
http://www.rpa.org/

Publications

Design of a Scale Model to Evaluate the Dispersion of Biological and Chemical Agents in a NYC Subway Station
Development of a Rational Method to Design Wick Drain Systems
Diesel Retrofit Assessment for NYS DOT to Retrofit its Existing Engine Fleet
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