The Madera County Transportation Commission is the Regional Transportation Planning Agency (RTPA) and the newly designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Madera County. The City of Madera qualified as new urban area in 2000 with a population of 50,027 within the urban boundary established by the United States Census Bureau. The Madera metropolitan boundary covers the entire
County of Madera. The Commission is responsible for the development and adoption of the Regional Transportation Plan and Transportation Improvement Program as required by state law.
The Commission’s role is to foster intergovernmental coordination; undertake comprehensive regional planning with an emphasis on transportation issues; provide a forum for citizen input into the planning process; and to provide technical services to its member agencies. In all these activities the Commission works to develop a consensus among its members with regards to multi-jurisdictional transportation issues.