                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMONWEALTH TRANSPORTATION BOARD TO DEVELOP AND UPDATE STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION
PLAN (§ 33.2-353)

A. The Board shall, with the assistance of the Office of Intermodal Planning and
Investment, conduct a comprehensive review of statewide transportation needs in
a Statewide Transportation Plan setting forth assessment of capacity needs for
all corridors of statewide significance, regional networks, and improvements to
promote urban development areas established pursuant to &#xA7; 15.2-2223.1. The
assessment shall consider all modes of transportation. Such corridors shall be
planned to include multimodal transportation improvements, and the plan shall
consider corridor location in planning for any major transportation
infrastructure, including environmental impacts and the comprehensive land use
plan of the locality in which the corridor is planned. In the designation of
such corridors, the Board shall not be constrained by local, district, regional,
or modal plans.
			The Statewide Transportation Plan shall be updated as needed but no less than
once every four years. The plan shall promote economic development and all
transportation modes, intermodal connectivity, environmental quality,
accessibility for people and freight, resiliency, and transportation safety.

B. The Statewide Transportation Plan shall establish goals, objectives, and
priorities that cover at least a 20-year planning horizon, in accordance with
federal transportation planning requirements. The plan shall include
quantifiable measures and achievable goals relating to, but not limited to,
congestion reduction and safety, transit and high-occupancy vehicle facility
use, job-to-housing ratios, job and housing access to transit and pedestrian
facilities, air quality, movement of freight by rail, and per capita vehicle
miles traveled. The Board shall consider such goals in evaluating and selecting
transportation improvement projects for inclusion in the Six-Year Improvement
Program pursuant to &#xA7; 33.2-214.

C. The plan shall incorporate the measures and goals of the approved long-range
plans developed by the applicable regional organizations. Each such plan shall
be summarized in a public document and made available to the general public upon
presentation to the Governor and General Assembly.

D. It is the intent of the General Assembly that this plan assess transportation
needs and assign priorities to projects on a statewide basis, avoiding the
production of a plan that is an aggregation of local, district, regional, or
modal plans.

E. The plan shall consider and incorporate, where applicable, wildlife corridors
and any recommendation of the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan developed pursuant
to &#xA7; 29.1-579.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 320, § 33.1-23.03; 2001, cc. 764, 772; 2002, c. 639; 2007, c.
896;  2009, cc. 670, 690, 864, 871; 2011, cc. 104, 164; 2014, c. 805; 2021, Sp.
Sess. I, cc. 51, 52, 498.