The General Assembly created the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning in 2005 to oversee land use and transportation planning for the region. CMAP is a consolidation of two agencies, the ...

The Chicago Metropolitan Planning Agency is asking a lot of tough questions as it develops “The Century Plan,” a new agenda for the region. Those include: How has our population changed? How much does ...

Disinvested communities in southern Cook County have a common dilemma. They're in dire need of funds to repair and renovate roads and infrastructure and spur economic development. But with bare-bones ...

A new report is offering bold solutions to bolster the long-term sustainability of public transit in the Chicago area as the region’s transit agencies contend with fewer riders and a massive budget ...

Rescuing transit from a fiscal free fall could require higher taxes or fees and possibly kneading Metra, Pace and the CTA into one mega-agency, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning officials said ...

Until recently, there was no comprehensive inventory of Chicago sidewalks. Streets and bike lanes are all mapped, but publicly accessible data on whether every bus stop had a sidewalk or how many ...

Will transit survive — or can it thrive? That question will be at the heart of discussions in Springfield this month as state legislators continue the challenging work of addressing the fiscal cliff ...

A representative from the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning presented the organization’s Plan of Action for Regional Transit, aiming to address the transit system’s impending 2026 fiscal cliff ...

CMap is a professional services automation software business NorthEdge invested in CMap in December 2019 NorthEdge is a lower mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has completed the sale of CMap ...

This paper reviews the two Climate Macroeconomic Assessment Program (CMAP) pilots and proposes a way forward. It builds on the experience of the previous six Climate Change Policy Assessment (CCPA) ...