The Greensboro MPO was designated as a Transportation Management Area on July 8, 2002 (as a result of having a Census 2000 Urbanized Area population greater than 200,000). As a Transportation Management Area (TMA), the Greensboro MPO is required to develop and implement a Congestion Management System (CMS) within 18 months of designation. A CMS is a coordinated package of planning, programming, and operational strategies designed to improve the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the transportation system.

The MPO's Congestion Management System provides an effective tool for accomplishing this task. The CMS identifies a continuous program of data collection and management, performance monitoring, traffic demand reduction, and traffic operation improvements.

Guidance from the Federal Highway Administration's North Carolina Division specified that newly designated TMAs could demonstrate satisfactory progress toward implementation of a CMS by submitting a detailed CMS outline no later than January 8, 2004 and adopting that outline as its provisional CMS at its first scheduled meeting of 2004. The TMA must then adopt a fully functional CMS by the time of its next scheduled long range transportation plan update.

MPO staff prepared and submitted a Detailed CMS Outline by January 8, which was accepted by the FHWA NC Division, and adopted by the TAC on January 22, 2004. MPO staff and the consultant team then developed a full CMS, which was adopted by the TAC on July 22, 2004, one month in advance of the adoption of the MPO's 2030 Long Range Transportation Plan.

Congestion Management Links

Congestion Management System Report

Greensboro DOT Congestion Management Program

Greensboro DOT Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Information

Piedmont Triad Regional ITS Strategic Deployment Plan

NC SmartLink Traffic Monitoring System