Goals
Increase System Capacity, Quality, and Connectivity for All Users (e.g., drivers, walkers, bicyclists, transit riders, mobility device users, commercial vehicles, and other forms of transportation):
■ Increase route choices and connections for all users.
■ Roads: increase capacity and efficiency.
■ Sidewalks: increase access and connectivity.
■ Bicycle facilities: increase total miles of bike routes/facilities.
■ Transit: increase transit participation.
■ Use technology to enhance system performance, including accessible technology (i.e., audible signals).
■ Increase the number of people who walk, ride a bike, and/or take transit.
■ Provide reliable travel times for commuters, emergency vehicles, and commercial users.
■ Minimize congestion.
■ Reduce vehicle operating and maintenance costs due to poor pavement conditions.
■ Emphasize asset management.
Ensure Safety for All Users:
■ Reduce serious injuries and fatalities.
■ Maximize safe routes within and between neighborhoods and throughout the community for all users.
■ Design and build facilities and routes that maximize safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.
■ Ensure safe speeds.
Facilitate Housing Supply, Job Creation, and Economic Development to Meet Demand/Growth:
■ Build new roads and upgrade existing roads to serve areas targeted for growth (prioritizing opportunity and expansion areas) and job creation.
■ Provide access and connectivity to expanded housing supply.
■ Improve connectivity and route choices for commercial users.
Protect Livability and Ensure Equity and Access:
■ Incorporate a complete streets approach for all new road projects and road reconstruction.
■ Increase safe routes to schools.
■ Ensure that people of all income levels and abilities have access to the transportation options that best meet their needs.
■ Encourage the use of roads for their stated classification.
■ Keep through freight traffic on ODOT facilities.
Steward the Environment:
■ Minimize the impacts of the transportation system on natural features.
■ Minimize the impacts of the system on air and water quality and noise.
■ Reduce carbon emissions from transportation.
Have a Regional Outlook and Future Focus:
■ Coordinate and partner with other public and private capital improvement projects and local/regional planning initiatives.
■ Create a system that is designed to implement innovative and emerging transportation technologies.
Implement a Comprehensive Funding and Implementation Plan:
■ Identify stable, equitable, adequate, and achievable funding for transportation programs and projects.
■ Ensure that the financial plan and investment priorities are transparent, understandable, and broadly supported by the community.
■ Produce a funding plan that includes contributions from residents, visitors, and businesses and that delivers benefits to all users and geographies equitably and in a timely manner.
■ Include performance measures/benchmarks and a formal process to periodically assess progress to date and adjust or update the plan as needed.
■ Achieve financial stability.