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73 which are formulated on the basis of transportation needs with due consideration to comprehensive long-range land use plans, development objectives, and overall social, economic, environmental, system performance, and energ~ conservation goals and objectives, and with due consideration to their probable effect on the future development of urban areas of more than fifty thousand population. The planning process shall include an analysis of alternative transportation system management and investment strategies to make more efficient use of existing transportation facilities. The process shall consider all modes of transportation ~ and shall be continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive to the degree appropriate based on,the complexity of the transportation problems. After July 1, 1965, the Secretary shall not approve under section 105 of this title any program for projects in any urban area of more than fifty thousand population unless he finds that such projects are based on a continuing comprehensive transportation planning process carried on cooperatively by States and local communities in conformance with the objectives stated in this section. No highway project may be constructed in any urban area of fifty thousand population or more unless the responsible public officials of such urban area in which the project is located have been consulted and their views considered with respect to the corridor, the location and the design of the project."; and, WHEREAS, a transportation planning process includes the operational procedures and working arrangements by which short and tong-range trans- portation plans are soundly conceived and developed and continuously evaluated in a manner that will; Assist governing bodies and official agencies in determining courses of action and in formulating attainable capital improve- ment programs in anticipation of community needs; and, Guide private individuals and groups.in planning their decisions which can be important factors in the pattern of future development and redevelopment of the area; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of these agencies that a continuing, compre- hensive, cooperative transportation planning process be established to comply with 23 U.S.C. 134; and Sections 3(a)(2), 4(a), 5(g)(1), and 5(1) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, (49 U.S.C. 1602 (a)(2), 1603(a), 1604(~g)(1), and 1604(1));, the following Memorandum of Understanding is made. Section 1. It is hereby agreed that the CITY OF CONCORD, TOWN OF CHINA GROVE, TOWN OF LANDIS, CABARRUS COUNTY, ROWAN COUNTY, AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION in cooperation with the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, will participate in a continuing transportation planning process with responsibilities and undertakings as related in the following paragraphs: The Metropolitan Planning Organization in the Concord-Kannapolis Urban Area includes the boards of general purpose local government - Concord Board of Aldermen, China Grove Board of Aldermen, Landis Board of A~men, Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners, and Rowan County Board of Commissioners; the North Carolina Department of Transportation; a Transportation Advisory Committee hereinafter defined; a Technical Coordinating Committee hereinafter defined; and the various agencies and units of local and State government participating in the transportation planning for the area. The area involved, the Concord-Kannapolis Urban Transportation Study Area, will be the Concord-Kannapolis Urbanized Area as defined by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, plus that area beyond.the existing urbanized area boundary that is expected to become urbanized within a twenty year planning period. This area is hereinafter referred to as the planning area. The projected planning area boundary will be periodically reassessed and revised in the light of new developments and basic data projections for the current planning period.