Todd Lang is the Director of Transportation Planning at the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, where he oversees the MPO work program, including development of the region’s short and long range transportation plans. Fred Wagner is a partner at Venable, where he focuses on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, they’ll give us insight into what MPOs are and how they operate, what their planning process means to the expenditure of funds, and how built environment stakeholders can engage and add value to community planning.