Regionwide Plans

The Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) is North Carolina’s multi-modal transportation plan. The CTP represents a community’s consensus on the future transportation system (including the existing system and improvements) needed to support anticipated growth and development over a 25-30 year timeframe. When a CTP is adopted by NCDOT, it represents the state’s concurrence with the identified transportation needs and proposed recommendations.

This plan is a metropolitan transportation plan (MTP) which is a document required by FHWA to guide regional transportation priorities and actions. Cape Fear Transportation 2040 will be used to program local projects in the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP) and the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). This plan has a 25-year horizon and is intended to present a fiscally-constrained evaluation of projects and strategies that promote mobility and access for people and goods within the WMPO boundaries. Cape Fear Transportation also includes a strong public involvement component and was created by a Citizens Advisory Committee.

Cape Fear Transportation 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan

Executive Summary

The document contains funding information and schedules for state- and federal-funded transportation projects in the WMPO area. It includes airport, bicycle, mass transit, pedestrian, rail, and roadway projects.

This plan explores an array of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) strategies that could provide current and potential employees a variety of attractive transportation options.

This document details the WMPO’s congestion management process (CMP). The document describes the network the WMPO reviews for congestion, how congestion data is collected, how congestion data is evaluated, and what strategies are used by the WMPO to address congestion. Strategies within this document are aimed at reducing congestion while enhancing safety and multi-modal mobility region-wide. The WMPO is required to continually conduct a CMP by the Federal Highways Administration.

The WMPO will provide a Biennial Data Report every two years to demonstrate how the regional network is performing according to the performance measures established in the CMP.