The Rio Grande Valley Metropolitan Planning Org (RGVMPO) selected DCCM to assist in the development of their 5-year update to the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) originally adopted in 2020. This 2050 MTP Update is the first full MTP update for the new RGVMPO, which was formed in 2019. DCCM assistance to the RGVMPO allowed them to adopt the 2050 plan in December 2025 and obtain favorable ratings for the plan from FHWA Texas.

The 2050 MTP includes the MPO’s robust evaluation of potential project funding and financial capacities at the local level as a complement to DCCM’s evaluation of federal funding trends and forecasts. The 2050 MTP included recommendations and network prioritization results from the Resilience and Sustainability study to support the development of a Resilience Improvement Plan as well as strategies and recommendations developed in the RGVMPO Transportation Performance Management Framework also completed by DCCM. The incorporation of Performance Management Framework principles enhances how the RGVMPO can gather data on and report progress toward meeting federally required performance goal areas during MTP implementation.

The DCCM team incorporated best practices as part of an enhanced community-based public outreach and stakeholder engagement approach. The approach included major outreach events such as setting up tables and booths at the UTRGV Back to School Bash where over two thousand students attended multiple farmers market pop up events, surveys and interviews with community leaders and cooperating agencies, as well as tabling at a critical mass bike ride in Harlingen. All provided opportunities to develop goals, objectives and priorities for program improvements which aided the MPO team in assessing the opportunities to improve mobility choice and options for the regional population. In addition, this has led the MPO into ongoing discussions with regional government entities, agencies, and authorities on gathering and substantiating funding availability to assist with broadening the project implementation program sustained through the financially constrained short, mid-, and long-term implementation program.

With their program developed, the DCCM team assisted with updates and scenario evaluation of network performance and operational characteristics using the regional travel demand model. This evaluation allowed the DCCM team to assess and support development of future network improvements capable of building sufficient capacity to accommodate projected changes in land use, economic development, population, network connectivity, and employment.