The Subregional Planning program provides funding and planning assistance for county, subregional or corridor level transit and land use focused planning studies that serve the traditional suburb-to-city and intra-urban markets, as well as the non-traditional city-to-suburb markets. The program is available to counties, townships, councils of government/municipal associations, and groups of two or more municipalities in the RTA six-county service area, the City of Chicago, and the RTA Service Boards (CTA, Metra, and Pace). The program funds planning projects such as:

• Detailed Implementation Studies
• Service development studies for existing, underserved or emerging markets
• The transit component of a county or subregional transportation plan
• Corridor or subregional level integrated transit and land use improvement studies
• Transit-oriented development studies at the county, subregional or corridor level
• Coordinated paratransit studies at the county, subregional or corridor level