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As the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s Federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) is responsible for long-range and short-range transportation planning in the region. GIS is an indispensable tool in NCTCOG’s arsenal for understanding the region’s existing transportation system, tracking recommended improvements, and forecasting its future transportation needs. As the amount of data available to transportation planners continues to increase, careful management, curation, and analysis of this data are necessary to effectively apply data to planning analyses. This talk will explore some of the common datasets, tools, workflows, and GIS applications that the GIS team uses to help support transportation planning. New areas of recent innovation, including network analyses, machine learning, and linear referencing, will be areas of focus.