Events / Meetings

2025 CAPSITE Baltimore Region Transportation Planning Showcase

March 13, 2025
2:45–5:30 p.m. ET

 

Baltimore Metropolitan Council
1500 Whetstone Way Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21230

 

Fees

 

  • $35 CAPSITE Private-Sector Member
  • $10 Public Sector
  • $10 Student
  • $45 Private-Sector Non-ITE Member
  • $10 Public Sector Non-ITE Member

Register

 

 

Do you know what the Baltimore Metropolitan Council does? Do you know what the Baltimore Regional Transportation Board is? Do you want to learn how you can add your thoughts on the transportation planning process? Join us on Thursday, March 13th at 3pm to get answers to these questions! Baltimore Metropolitan Council staff will present on a range of ongoing and recently completed regional transportation plans, projects, and committees, including: 

  • Role of the Baltimore Regional Transportation Board and Baltimore Metropolitan Council
  • How input from the public gets collected and used
  • Overview of the Travel demand model, InSITE
  • Accessing our regional data dashboards
  • Planning for safety and supporting development of local Strategic Highway Safety Plans
  • Developing and modeling scenarios to support long-range transportation planning
  • Supporting transportation operations planning and management
  • Highlights of other recent projects

After the presentations, please join us for happy hour sponsored by CAPSITE at the Rye Street Tavern - 225 E Cromwell St, Baltimore, MD 21230.

Free parking is provided on site. 

Check in begins at 2:45pm

Below is the agenda for the showcase:

Topic

Time

Welcome

3:00

BMC/BRTB Overview - Organization and Board overview including all of our planning areas. 

3:05

Transportation Planning Budget - Overview of our Fiscal Year 2026 Proposed Transportation Planning Budget including preview of consulting opportunities 

3:15

Public Outreach/CORE

3:30

Travel Demand Model (INSITE) - Our regional travel demand model that predicts travel to the year 2050 and is used in most major transportation project development

Regional Data Dashboards - Air Quality, InSITE, Demographics, Major Projects, Freight, System Performance, Transit, Crash Data

3:40

 

Break

4:10

Safety/FHWA Safe Systems Approach and Local Strategic Highway Safety Plan Development

4:25

Scenario planning, VisionEval modeling

4:45

TSMO/Operations Planning (could be added to documents/products of interest if desired, and add 5 min to that topic)

  • TIMBR Committee
  • T&PW Committee
  • Traffic Signal Subcommittee

5:05

Products of Interest

  • Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Integration for Local Governments
  • Electric Vehicle Community Charging Hubs - Provide guidance to our jurisdictions to implement electric vehicle charging projects, Prioritize providing charging to people who live in high density residential areas
  • Climate Resilience Guidance for Local Jurisdictions and Adaptation Toolkit
  • Bicycle Planning - Overview of our Bikeable Baltimore Region project and our Patapsco Regional Greenway segment planning and design
  • Transportation Impact Study (TIS) Guidelines & Best Practices - Reviews current requirements of our member agencies and suggest improvements

5:15