Goal 1: Improve Transportation System and Travel
- Objective: Improve accessibility to major health care, recreation, education,
employment and cultural facilities
- Objective: Enhance mobility for people and freight
- Objective: Reduce Congestion
- Objective: Maximize multimodal travel options and provide travel choices
- Objective: Fill transit service gaps
- Objective: Promote transit reliability
- Objective: Improve transportation facilities’ and services’ regional connectivity
- Objective: Include provisions for non-motorized modes in new projects and in reconstructions
- Objective: Promote new non-motorized (bicycle, pedestrian, greenways) projects
- Objective: Increase reverse commute opportunities for disadvantaged communities
- Objective: Promote transportation improvements that provide for the needs of the
elderly and disabled
- Objective: Improve transit services that provide access to educational facilities
Goal 2: Increase the Safety of the Transportation System for Motorized and Non-motorized
Users
- Objective: Improve safety on facilities and in operations
- Objective: Reduce roadway and multi-modal crashes
- Objective: Increase safety at transit stops and intermodal stations and connections
- Objective: Implement safe route to schools
Goal 3: Increase the Security of the Transportation System for Motorized and Non-motorized
Users
- Objective: Enhance the capacity of evacuation corridors
- Objective: Improve transportation security for facilities and in operations
- Objective: Ensure transportation options are available during emergency evacuations
for the elderly and persons with disabilities
- Objective: Ensure security at ports, airports, and major intermodal centers/terminals
Goal 4: Support Economic Vitality
- Objective: Increase access to employment and sites
- Objective: Enhance tourist travel and access opportunities
- Objective: Increase and improve passenger and good access to airports and seaports
- Objective: Augment multimodal access to major activity centers
- Objective: Enhance the efficient movement of freight and goods
- Objective: Implement projects that support economic development and redevelopment
areas
Goal 5: Protect and Preserve the Environment and Quality of Life and Promote Energy
Conservation
- Objective: Minimize and mitigate air and water quality impacts of transportation
facilities, services, and operations
- Objective: Reduce fossil fuels use
- Objective: Promote projects that support urban infill and densification
- Objective: Minimize adverse impacts to established neighborhoods
- Objective: Promote transportation improvements that are consistent with adopted
comprehensive development master plans
- Objective: Prioritize funding to favor intra-urban (within UDB) improvements
- Objective: Promote the use of alternative vehicle technologies
- Objective: Apply transportation and land use planning techniques, such as transit-oriented
development, that support intermodal connections and coordination
Goal 6: Enhance the Integration and Connectivity of the Transportation System, Across
and Between Modes, for People and Freight
- Objective: Improve connectivity to Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) and intermodal
facilities
- Objective: Provide multi-modal options consistent with the local government comprehensive
plan
- Objective: Facilitate connections between transportation modes
- Objective: Improve goods movement by enhanced intermodal access and other infrastructure
that serve major freight origins and destinations in Miami-Dade County
- Objective: Improve freight movement operations and reliability by promoting expedient
and cooperative practices across all modes
Goal 7: Optimize Sound Investment Strategies for System Improvement and Management/Operation
- Objective: Optimize benefits of capital expenditures
- Objective: Optimize operations and maintenance expenses
- Objective: Optimize applications of People’s Transportation Plan funding
- Objective: Maximize use of private sector funding sources
- Objective: Maximize use of State and Federal funding sources
- Objective: Promote local improvement projects within the systems improvement context
Goal 8: Maximize and Preserve the Existing Transportation System
- Objective: Continue to examine the provision and utilization of special-use lanes
on the existing system
- Objective: Identify and implement the best available technologies and innovations
to improve the reliability and efficiency of the transportation system
- Objective: Identify and reserve corridors and right-of-way (on roadways, railways,
and waterways) for future transportation facilities and services
- Objective: Expand the use of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) strategies
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