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Goals and Strategies

Goals

To guide the development of Visualize 2050, the TPB has eight goals that describe what the TPB aims to accomplish through the plan, as a result of the region’s transportation planning process: Safety, Maintenance, Reliability, Affordable & Convenient, Efficient System Operations, Environmental Protection, Resilient Region, and Livable & Prosperous Communities.

Safety

The safety of all users, including travelers and maintenance and operations personnel alike, should be ensured on all parts of the transportation system at all times.

Maintenance

All aspects of the transportation system’s infrastructure should be maintained in a state of good repair to provide reliable, safe, and comfortable mobility to all its users. Maintaining the existing system is a top priority that takes precedence over creating new systems.

Reliability

Any and all options of travel available should be reliable to get the user to their destination on time every time.

Affordable & Convenient

Provide affordable, realistic multimodal options.

Efficient System Operations

Implement transportation systems management and operations.

Environmental Protection

Provide, facilitate, and incentivize methods that build, operate and maintain the transportation system in a manner that provides for healthy air, water, other environmental factors, and mitigates the climate change crisis.

Resilient Region

The region’s transportation system should remain able to move people in the face of one or more major obstacles to normal function. These obstacles could include extreme weather events, major crashes and incidents, and equipment or infrastructure failures.

Livable & Prosperous Communities

Support regional economic competitiveness, opportunity, and a high quality of life for all people.

Strategies

To accomplish these goals, the TPB encourages its members to implement the following priority strategies:

Apply best practices to maintain the transportation system such as bridge and pavement management and transit asset management.
Apply the endorsed safety strategies to design and operate safer infrastructure and encourage safer behavior.
Increase frequency and capacity of transit by expanding Bus Rapid Transit and Transitways.
Reduce travel times on all public transportation bus services.
Move more people on Metrorail and commuter rail.
Bring jobs and housing closer together by focusing growth and adding housing units in Activity Centers and near High-Capacity Transit stations.
Provide more telecommuting and other options for commuting such as vanpool or carpool and alternative work schedules.
Expand the express highway network, with rapid transit, and allow carpool/vanpool ride free.
Improve walk and bike access to transit, especially within TPB identified High-Capacity Transit station areas, through the application of Complete Streets and Green Streets policies.
Complete the National Capital Trail Network.
Implement Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) measures at all eligible locations.
Apply effective technologies that advance the TPB’s goals.
Convert vehicles to clean fuels: 50 percent of new light-duty vehicles, 30 percent of medium and heavy-duty trucks sold; 50 percent of all buses on the road.
Develop and implement an electric vehicle charging network.

Hero image: Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC (Mike Maguire/Flickr)

Goals images include: Brookland Open Streets (Joe Flood/Flickr), Jeff Todd Parkway (Fairfax County/Flickr), Rad Power Bike (Elvert Barnes/Flickr), Laurel Avenue Streatery (City of Takoma Park), Beach Mill Road (Fairfax County/Flickr), Carroll Creek Frederick (Jennifer Boyer/Flickr)