What Are Our Goals?
Promote Safety
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:
- Work with stakeholders to identify and develop proven and data-driven strategies, countermeasures, and programs
- Reduce crashes and lessen crash severity by implementing engineering solutions
- Use education and outreach to promote safe driving, bicycling, and pedestrian activities
- Coordinate with first responders to improve incident response times
Optimize System Performance: Movement of People and Goods
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:
- Reduce congestion through both traditional and alternative strategies
- Enable reliable travel times
- Increase travel options/connections
- Ensure freight can move efficiently
- Increase access to jobs, services, and activity centers
- Leverage transportation assets to support economic growth and vitality
Focus on the Customer: Communicate Effectively
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:
- Communicate effectively with the public and partners
- Be accountable and transparent in decision-making
- Encourage feedback from the public and stakeholders
- Inform the public and stakeholders on TxDOT roles, costs, funding, and investment tradeoffs
- Improve communication and coordination with all planning partners and stakeholders
Preserve our Assets
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:
- Preserve integrity of bridges and highway structures
- Provide roads that are smooth and structurally sound
- Keep other assets and technological devices operating
- Reduce long-term costs
- Mitigate asset risks
Deliver the Right Projects
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:
- Reduce user costs
- Identify and maintain reliable funding
- Improve analytic capabilities to maximize the value of investments
- Fairly distribute transportation benefits and costs
- Strategically deploy innovative technology to increase effectiveness and efficiency of the system
- Maintain sustainable funding
Foster Stewardship: Protect and Preserve the Human and Natural Environment
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:
- Enhance communities’ quality of life through infrastructure and design choices
- Incorporate environmental resource considerations early in the planning process
- Avoid, minimize, and/or mitigate adverse impacts to cultural, natural, and historic resources
- Design a resilient and future-focused transportation system
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