Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG)
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Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Monterey Bay Area
The Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG), located on California’s Central Coast, is the federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the three-county, 18-city Monterey Bay metropolitan region and is the transportation planning agency responsible for developing and implementing the long-range metropolitan transportation plan, known as the Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS). The MTP/SCS, combines the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) contributions from three different county transportation planning agencies that represent San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties.
AMBAG’s 2022 MTP/SCS, “Moving Forward Monterey Bay 2045”, includes a set of integrated policies, strategies, and investments to maintain and improve the transportation system to meet the diverse needs of the region through 2045. The plan encourages more focused growth in high quality transit corridors and provides more travel choices for safe and efficient access to jobs and education opportunities. These strategies, together with transportation system management, transportation demand management, active transportation, telecommuting, and an increase in zero-emission vehicles, are projected to reduce transportation-related GHG emissions in the region.
2022 MTP/SCS
- CARB staff's transmittal letter and technical evaluation of the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments' (AMBAG) Final Sustainable Communities Strategy (Sep. 2024)
- CARB Executive Order accepting AMBAG's determination that the SCS would meet the region's 2035 GHG emission reduction target if implemented (Sep. 2024)
- AMBAG's 2022 MTP/SCS, adopted June 2022
2018 MTP/SCS
- CARB staff's technical evaluation of AMBAG's Final Sustainable Communities Strategy (Nov. 2018)
- CARB Executive Order accepting AMBAG's determination that the Final SCS would meet the region's GHG emissions reduction targets (Nov. 2018)
- 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy, adopted June 13, 2018
Past evaluations are available on request, contact sustainablecommunities@arb.ca.gov.