Resolution R4 – 2026 approving the Visualize 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan and the FY 2026-2029 TIP for the National Capital Region

Equity, Accessibility, Sustainability, Prosperity, and Livability

These principles exemplify the TPB’s values.

To accomplish these goals, the TPB has encouraged 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.

These priority strategies adopted by the TPB in 2022 with the adoption of Visualize 2045, set the framework for the technical inputs and ongoing planning activities that inform Visualize 2050.