Goal 1

Statement

Maintain, preserve and improve the existing regional transportation system.

Description

It is important to protect the significant investments already made in the transportation system by maintaining and preserving the system to keep it usable. Both the structural and operational integrity of the system needs to be maintained and preserved as well as the system's capacity to meet travel needs. This is a priority transportation policy at federal, state and local levels.

Source: Metropolitan Transportation Plan

Supported by

Increase efficiency of the exisitng transportation system

Associated Performance Measures

CategoryNumberPerformance Measure
Travel–Time1Average travel–time; average speed
Travel–TIme Reliability2Travel–time index; planning time index; buffer time index; on–time transit performance