What are our goals
Statewide Long-Range Transportation Plan
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.