The planning process never stops, and each plan represents a point in time communicating the region’s current transportation environment, its priorities and future direction. Each iteration of the National Capital Region Transportation Plan provides an opportunity to reflect on past successes, current situations, future considerations, and make adjustments for how the region will prepare for the future. Following the adoption of the National Capital Region Transportation Plan Visualize 2045 update in June 2022, the TPB began a comprehensive review of the region’s projects and a summary of the scenarios analyzed for consideration in the development of Visualize 2050.

During the development of the Visualize 2045 update, the TPB adopted the following resolutions to shape the planning process for Visualize 2050.

The following are key documents for use in plan development.

Visualize 2050, Synthesized Policy Framework guides the development of Visualize 2050 providing a compilation of the TPB’s previous work on principles, goals and strategy development.

Visualize 2050 Scenario Planning Studies – Summary of Findings

Visualize 2050 Scenario Planning Studies – Appendix A: Detailed Findings
These documents share TPB’s relevant scenario work for agency consideration in the submission of technical inputs.

Visualize 2050 and FY 2026-2029 Transportation Improvement Program Technical Inputs Solicitation Policy Guide and the accompanying Instructional Guide provide a wealth of information to stakeholders in support of their technical inputs submissions.

Additional resources from the TPB’s Visualize 2045 plan that informed future transportation system planning are available on the Visualize 2045 website.