The plan, which is not project-specific, sets transportation investment priorities for ADOT based on anticipated future revenues and system needs.
The Long Range Transportation Plan will include the Recommended Investment Choices, which defines how ADOT intends to allocate future resources across three major investment types:
- Preservation: Activities to maintain the current state highway system, such as replacing, repairing or maintaining pavement and repairing or replacing aging bridges.
- Modernization: Activities to improve safety and operations of the existing state highway system, such as adding shoulders and implementing smart road technologies.
- Expansion: Activities to add new highways, add lanes to existing highways or add interchanges.
The State Transportation Board approved the update at its Friday, Oct. 20, meeting in Yuma.
A broad cross-section of Arizonans, nearly 10,000 in all, provided input on the plan. Their input made it clear that ADOT’s top priorities should be fixing roads and preserving and maintaining existing infrastructure, along with highway projects that address growth and improve highways in rural areas.
The plan, which is updated every five years, is available for review here.
