The 2025 RTP Update is Now Available!
About the RTP
The Regional Transit Plan is a 25-year plan for improving public transportation in Central Maryland (Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Harford County, and Howard County). The Plan addresses traditional transit (buses and trains) and explores new mobility options and technology.
Read the Plan (PDF) Read the Plan (accessible version) Read the Plan (Spanish version)In 2025, MTA released the first Five-Year Update to the RTP. This Update refines the RTP's original recommendations from 2020 into more focused proposals by considering how population, jobs, and opportunities have changed over the last five years.
Read the 2025 RTP Update (PDF) Read the 2025 RTP Update Fact Sheet (PDF)
About the RTP
The Regional Transit Plan is a 25-year plan for improving public transportation in Central Maryland (Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Harford County, and Howard County). The Plan addresses traditional transit (buses and trains) and explores new mobility options and technology.
Read the Plan (PDF) Read the Plan (accessible version) Read the Plan (Spanish version)In 2025, MTA released the first Five-Year Update to the RTP. This Update refines the RTP's original recommendations from 2020 into more focused proposals by considering how population, jobs, and opportunities have changed over the last five years.
Read the 2025 RTP Update (PDF) Read the 2025 RTP Update Fact Sheet (PDF)The Plan will improve the way we move through our daily lives.
This ambitious plan will support the region’s economy, sustain the environment, transform communities, and connect residents to jobs and services.
Inside the Plan
Three Overarching Goals
With three overarching goals supported by six objectives, the Plan looks at how to connect people where they need to go by improving existing transit services, identifying areas that can be better served by transit, and considering where new services could be appropriate.
The Five-Year Update to the RTP
The RTP establishes long-term goals and objectives, but the region is constantly changing, so Maryland law requires MTA to update the plan every five years. In 2025, MTA released the first RTP Update.
Read the 2025 RTP Update (PDF)
What’s in the Update?
Progress on Initiatives from the 2020 RTP
Progress made on the 2020 RTP’s initiatives, including RTP Corridors, Transit Network Improvement Areas, and Strategies that directly support the plan’s six objectives.
Updated Transit Market and Demand Analysis
How regional travel and future projections have changed over the last five years and how those changes impact the RTP’s recommendations.
Updated Recommendations
- RTP Corridors: Proposals for the most investment-ready RTP Corridors, along with essential facility needs and recommendations for other RTP Corridors
- Strategies: New and revised Strategies, or specific actions that support the RTP’s six objectives
- Transit Network Improvement Areas: Local transit-supportive actions not tied to a specific corridor
Five-Year Implementation Plan
Short-term actions for MTA and its partners.
What’s changed since the RTP was released in 2020?
The updated Transit Market and Demand Analysis found that the geography of transit in Central Maryland minimally changed since 2020, despite the intervening Covid pandemic. Overall, travel has grown, and this growth is highly concentrated along the RTP Corridors identified in the 2020 RTP. Non-work trips now have greater prominence among transit travel, and ridership is more distributed throughout the day, with less intense rush-hour periods.
How is MTA working with the Central Maryland counties on the RTP?
Central Maryland counties participate in the Baltimore Regional Transit Commission (BRTC) which oversees RTP implementation and updates. For the 2025 RTP Update, MTA reviewed local plans and met with planning staff from multiple jurisdictions to identify transit-supportive land use, policy and program proposals.
How has MTA involved the public?
MTA regularly reported progress and solicited public feedback for the RTP Update at meetings of the BRTC. For more information, including meeting dates, MTA presentations, and other materials, visit the BRTC website. (See “RTP”, “CMRTP”, or “MTA Updates” in the Presentations column of the Recent & Upcoming BRTC Meeting Materials table.)
