California Transportation Plan (CTP) 2025

The California Transportation Plan (CTP), provides the transportation vision for California for 2025 and beyond. It is the product of extensive public outreach and consultation with transportation partners and stakeholders, presents a vision for California's future transportation system, and defines goals, policies, and strategies to reach the vision. The CTP vision is one of a fully integrated, multimodal, sustainable transportation system that supports the three outcomes (3Es) that define quality of life – prosperous economy, quality environment, and social equity.
The CTP is a long-range transportation policy plan that explores the social, economic, and technological trends and demographic changes anticipated over the next 20 years and their potential influence on travel behavior. The CTP offers a blueprint for a thoughtful and reasoned approach for meeting California’s future mobility needs. This plan presents strategies for improving mobility while strongly supporting a growing economy and healthy environment, and providing equitable opportunities for all Californians. The CTP 2025 provides:

1. A People's plan - developed through extensive public outreach and consultation with transportation partners and stakeholders
2. A Vision of Balanced System - The CTP looks to the future by envisioning a balanced transportation system that promotes sustainability. It incorporates the roadway system, transit, bicycle, pedestrian, maintenance and communication facilities, railways, airports, seaports, spaceports, pipelines, and the publicly and privately owned vehicles that travel on them.
3. A Vision of Sustainability - The CTP strives to to ensure that economic, environmental, and social considerations are factored into decisions affecting transportation activity to develop a sustainable society. Sustainability will result in “livable communities” that enhance our quality of life and our economy and are characterized by mixed land uses, compact development, a wide range of housing and transportation choices, walkable neighborhoods, a sense of place, preservation of open space and farmland, and rehabilitation and redevelopment in existing communities.
4. Mobility and Accessibility - Transportation system performance can be measured by the mobility and accessibility it provides the user. The CTP proposes goals, policies, strategies, and the establishment of performance measures to enhance California’s mobility and accessibility over the next two decades. It builds on current activities and policies, and proposes new approaches to make the system safer and more efficient and to provide more transportation choices for its users.
5. Trends and Challenges - The first step in determining how to achieve the vision for California’s transportation system is an assessment and identification of the current and projected trends and
   challenges under which the CTP’s goals, policies, and strategies will be implemented.

To develop a seamless, integrated, sustainable transportation system that boosts California economy and offers a high degree of mobility and accessibility to California’s growing population, the CTP adopts colloboration, leadership, innovation, and communication as its guiding principles.

Sources:

• http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tpp/offices/osp/ctp.htm