As the Metropolitan Planning Organization for Erie and Niagara Counties, the Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC) is required to conduct a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive transportation planning process, with at least a 20-year horizon, that results in producing a Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) and Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for the region.

The MTP is a long-range planning document that identifies transportation deficiencies, policies, strategies, and projects over the next two decades. It is updated on a five-year cycle.

The GBNRTC coordinates the development of the MTP with communities and residents throughout Erie and Niagara Counties and with other local, state, and federal agencies. The MTP makes the GBNRTC Planning Area (Erie and Niagara Counties) eligible to receive a large amount of federal transportation funding to improve, maintain, and operate highways, public transit, bikeways, sidewalks, and related facilities.

Moving Forward 2050 Update

The Greater Buffalo Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC) is pleased to share the Moving Forward 2050 update, the region’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP).  This MTP (published in Spring 2023) is the strategic document that underpins planning of the region’s transportation infrastruc­ture, and has been developed in consultation with key stakehold­ers in the region as well as input from the public.

The current 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan UPDATE was approved in May 2023.

View the full resolution 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan Update (Google Drive - 23MB)

View or Print the Regional Transportation Plan by Chapter

Cover, Executive Summary and Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 - About this Plan Update

• Chapter 2 - Where We Are Today

• Chapter 3 - Where We Want to Be

• Chapter 4 - We Are Moving Forward

• Chapter 5 - Funding and Project Delivery

• Chapter 6 - Impacts of Moving Forward

  • Appendix A GBNRTC Resolution 2023-12 Approval of the 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan Update

  • Appendix B Glossary of Terms

  • Appendix C Environmental Resource Agency Consultation

  • Appendix D Public Participation Plan

  • Appendix E Air Quality Conformity Determination

  • Appendix F Meeting Federal Requirements

  • Appendix G Financial Forecast Assumptions

  • Appendix H Equity and Environmental Justice Analysis

  • Appendix I Regional Travel Model Input Assumptions

  • Appendix J Transportation System Performance Report

  • Appendix K Demographic Forecasts Tech Memo

  • Appendix L Project Listing and Cost Tech Memo

  • Appendix M Data Sources

Previous Metropolitan Transportation Plan

• Moving Forward 2050 (May 2018) - (Google Drive 57MB)