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