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.

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.