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 § 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 § 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 § 29.1-579.
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.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 33.2 - Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems
§ 33.2-301. Contracts for maintenance of components of Interstate System
§ 33.2-302. Funds for establishment and maintenance of Interstate System, generally
§ 33.2-303. Portions of Interstate System within cities and towns
§ 33.2-306. Applicability of §§ 33.2-300 through 33.2-305 to toll projects
§ 33.2-307. Relocation or removal of utility facilities within projects on Interstate System
§ 33.2-309. Tolls for use of Interstate System components
§ 33.2-310. Primary state highway system
§ 33.2-311. Certain highways in parks included in primary state highway system
§ 33.2-312. Maintenance of highways, bridges, and toll facilities within state parks
§ 33.2-313. Maintenance of highways at state institutions
§ 33.2-316. Primary state highway system map
§ 33.2-317. Establishment, construction, and maintenance exclusively by Commonwealth; funds
§ 33.2-318. Bypasses through or around cities and towns
§ 33.2-319. Payments to cities and certain towns for maintenance of certain highways
§ 33.2-322. Counties may perform certain maintenance
§ 33.2-323. Approval of markings and traffic lights erected by towns
§ 33.2-324. Secondary state highway system; composition
§ 33.2-325. Certain school roads in secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-326. Control, supervision, and management of secondary state highway system components
§ 33.2-327. Design standards for secondary state highway system components
§ 33.2-328. Department of Transportation to install and maintain certain signs
§ 33.2-333. Emergency paving of unpaved secondary highways; notice and local concurrence
§ 33.2-334. Requirements for taking new streets into secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-335. Taking certain streets into secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-336. Funds allocated to counties for Rural Addition Program; street standards
§ 33.2-337. Contributions to primary or secondary state highway construction by counties
§ 33.2-338. Construction and improvement of primary or secondary highways by counties
§ 33.2-339. Maintenance, etc., of streets and highways in certain towns from secondary funds
§ 33.2-340. Maintenance, etc., by Commissioner of Highways when no request for allocation
§ 33.2-341. Maps of secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-342. Resumption of responsibility for secondary state highways by counties
§ 33.2-343. Return after withdrawal from secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-344. Election to determine return to the secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-345. Effect of election to determine return to the secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-346. Machinery, etc., owned by returning county
§ 33.2-347. Minimum street and highway standards for certain towns
§ 33.2-349. Character of signs, markings, and signals
§ 33.2-350. Landscape studies for urban highway construction projects
§ 33.2-351. Definition of "allocation."
§ 33.2-352. Asset management practices; report
§ 33.2-353. Commonwealth Transportation Board to develop and update Statewide Transportation Plan
§ 33.2-354. Commonwealth Transportation Board to develop and update Statewide Pedestrian Policy
§ 33.2-355. Goals for addressing transportation needs of populations with limited mobility
§ 33.2-356. Funding for extraordinary repairs
§ 33.2-357. Revenue-sharing funds for systems in certain localities
§ 33.2-358. Allocation of funds to programs
§ 33.2-359. Unpaved secondary highway funds
§ 33.2-360. Allocation of funds for interstate match
§ 33.2-363. Construction of U.S. Route 29 bypass
§ 33.2-367. Highway aid to mass transit
§ 33.2-368. Financial plans for transportation construction projects
§ 33.2-369. State of good repair
§ 33.2-370. High-priority projects program
§ 33.2-371. Highway construction district grant programs
§ 33.2-372. Interstate Operations and Enhancement Program