Congestion Management Program

As the Congestion Management Agency for Los Angeles County, Metro is responsible for implementing the Congestion Management Program (CMP).

State statute requires that a congestion management program be developed, adopted and updated biennially for every county that includes an urbanized area and shall include every city and the county government within that county.

Since the CMP became effective with the passage of Proposition 111 in 1990, it has forged new ground in linking transportation, land use and air quality decisions for one of the most complex urban areas in the country. The CMP addresses the impact of local growth on the regional transportation system.

Statutory elements of the CMP include Highway and Roadway System monitoring, multi-modal system performance analysis, the Transportation Demand Management Program, the Land Use Analysis Program and local conformance for all the county's jurisdictions.

On October 28, 2010 the Metro Board adopted the 2010 CMP for Los Angeles County. The 2010 CMP summarizes the results of 18 years of CMP highway and transit monitoring and 15 years of monitoring local growth. CMP implementation guidelines for local jurisdictions are also contained in the 2010 CMP.

View the 2010 CMP on-line (PDF format, 2.6MB; Adobe® Acrobat Reader plug-in required). For hard copies of the 2010 CMP, please call or e-mail Stacy Alameida at 213.922.7414.or alameidas@metro.net.

CMP Congestion Mitigation Fee Feasibility Study Report

Due to projected growth challenges and local transportation funding needs, the Metro Board of Directors authorized work on a Congestion Mitigation Fee Feasibility Study to determine whether implementing a county-wide congestion mitigation fee is feasible. 

Staff has been meeting with sub-regional Councils of Governments (COGs), local jurisdictions, the private sector, the Congestion Mitigation Fee Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) and other stakeholders to solicit input on whether a Congestion Mitigation Fee program would work in a complex region such as Los Angeles County.

The result of this work effort is the Congestion Mitigation Fee Feasibility Study Report, which the Metro Board approved in September 2008.

The Study Report provides the program guidelines for the proposed congestion mitigation program. It also establishes the framework for proceeding to work with local jurisdictions to identify local transportation projects with regional benefits and review growth forecasts, which staff is currently conducting.

For copies of the Study Report, please call or email Robert Cálix at 213.922.5644 or calixr@metro.net.

View the Study Report (PDF format, 1.9 MB) and the Fact Sheet (PDF format, 441KB) on-line.