Enhance Safety
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:

• Design and build infrastructure to reduce crashes and lessen crash severity
• Improve incident response times
• Promote safe driving, bicycling, and pedestrian activities
• Enhance coordination with first responders.

Optimize Movement of People and Goods
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:

• Reduce congestion through both traditional and alternative strategies
• Improve travel time reliability
• Increase travel options and connections across modes
• Ensure freight can move efficiently
• Increase access to jobs, services, and activity centers
• Leverage transportation assets to support economic growth and vitality

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 Infrastructure
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

Sustainably Fund and Effectively 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 (keeping pace)

Protect and Preserve the Human and Natural Environment
Additional objectives emphasized for statewide planning:

• Protect cultural, natural, and historic resources
• 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 from construction and use
• Design a resilient and future-focused transportation system