The StanCOG Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) is a long-term blueprint for how the Stanislaus region will grow and move over the next 25 years. It looks at how to improve transportation options—like roads, buses, bike paths, and walking routes—while also planning for housing,
StanCOG’s 2026 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) is an update to the 2022 StanCOG RTP/SCS that was previously adopted, on August 17, 2022, by the StanCOG Policy Board and subsequently amended on September 18, 2024. The RTP will guide the development of the Federal Transportation Improvement Program (FTIP), as well as other transportation programming documents and plans throughout the Stanislaus County region. Specifically, the 2026 RTP/SCS will update the region’s goals and policies for meeting current and future mobility needs and identify programs, actions, and a revised plan of projects intended to address these needs consistent with adopted goals and objectives. The 2026 RTP/SCS will address all transportation modes, including highways, streets and roads, transit, rail, bicycle and pedestrian, and aviation, as well as transportation demand management measures and intelligent transportation systems to the horizon year of 2049.
The 2026 RTP will include an update to the SCS, which is required by California Senate Bill 375, the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 (SB 375). As the MPO for Stanislaus Region, StanCOG is required to prepare an SCS that demonstrates how GHG reduction targets will be met through integrated land use, housing, and transportation planning. If the SCS does not meet GHG emission reduction targets, an Alternative Planning Strategy (APS) may be prepared to show how the GHG emission targets would be achieved through means outside of the fiscally constrained RTP.
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