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.
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.
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.
Any and all options of travel available should be reliable to get the user to their destination on time every time.
Provide affordable, realistic multimodal options.
Implement transportation systems management and operations.
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.
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.
Support regional economic competitiveness, opportunity, and a high quality of life for all people.
To accomplish these goals, the TPB encourages its members to implement the following priority strategies:
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)