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 resulting from the Visualize 2045 plan to assist with consideration of future transportation system planning are provided below.

• Visualize 2045 Update, Environmental Justice Analysis
• Visualize 2045 Update, Air Quality Conformity Determination Summary
• Visualize 2045 Update, Performance Analysis of the Transportation System
• Visualize 2045 Update, Voices of the Region Outreach
• Visualize 2045 Update, Public Comments
• Visualize 2045 Update, list of all projects in the plan by jurisdiction, and how each sponsor agency indicates the projects advance the TPB policy priorities and federal planning factors
• Visualize 2045 Update, key elements of the Air Quality Conformity policy and technical approach
• Equity Emphasis Areas  (EEAs)
• High-Capacity Transit Station and EEA interactive planning tool