NOTE: If you require any accommodations in order to participate or experience technical difficulties during the meeting, please contact Ibbu Quraishi, MPO Staff, at iquraishi@ctps.org or 857.702.3695.

Agenda posted before 10:00 AM, April 9, 2026

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

April 16, 2026, 10:00 AM (Estimated duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes, expected ending at 11:40 AM)

Civil Rights, nondiscrimination, and accessibility information is on page 3.

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Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions, 5 minutes

2. Chair’s Report, 2 minutes

3. Executive Director’s Report, 5 minutes

4. Public Comments, 5 minutes

5. Committee Chairs’ Reports, 5 minutes

6. Community Advisory Council Report, 3 minutes

7. Action Item: Work Scope: Estimating Avoided Carbon Emissions, Rose McCarron, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the work program to quantify the impact of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) transit operations in avoiding potential carbon emissions and support strategic communications about the value of transit services, 5 minutes (posted)

8. Action Item: Work Scope: MBTA State Fiscal Year 2027 National Transit Database: Data Collection and Analysis, Bradley Putnam, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve the work program to develop estimates of passenger-miles traveled and unlinked trips for various MBTA modes, 5 minutes (posted)

9. Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2026–30 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Administrative Modification One, Adriana Jacobsen, MPO Staff: Presentation and discussion of FFYs 2026–30 TIP Administrative Modification One, 5 minutes (to be posted)

10. Action Item: FFYs 2026–30 TIP Adjustment Three, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to approve FFYs 2026–30 TIP Adjustment Three, 5 minutes (posted)

11. Action Item: FFYs 2026–30 TIP Amendment Three, Ethan Lapointe, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to endorse FFYs 2026–30 TIP Amendment Three, 10 minutes (posted)

12. Action Item: Critical Urban Freight Corridors Update, Shravanthi Gopalan Narayanan, MPO Staff: Presentation, discussion, and vote to endorse the Critical Urban Freight Corridors Update, 10 minutes (posted)

13. Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Capital Investment Plan (CIP), Michelle Scott, MassDOT: Presentation and discussion of MassDOT’s CIP development process and details about the upcoming FYs 2027–2031 CIP, 30 minutes

14. Members’ Items: Reports and notices by MPO members, including regional concerns and local community issues, 5 minutes

CIVIL RIGHTS NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Welcome. Bem Vinda. Bienvenido. Akeyi. 欢迎. 歡迎.

You are invited to participate in our transportation planning process, free from discrimination. The Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is committed to nondiscrimination in all activities and complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency). Related federal and state nondiscrimination laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of age, sex, disability, and additional protected characteristics.

For additional information or to file a civil rights complaint, visit www.bostonmpo.org/mpo_non_discrimination.

To request accommodations at meetings (such as assistive listening devices, materials in accessible formats and languages other than English, and interpreters in American Sign Language and other languages) or if you need this information in another language, please contact:

Boston Region MPO Title VI Specialist

10 Park Plaza, Suite 2150

Boston, MA 02116

Phone: 857.702.3700

Email: civilrights@ctps.org

For people with hearing or speaking difficulties, connect through the state MassRelay service, www.mass.gov/massrelay. Please allow at least five business days for your request to be fulfilled.