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Long-Range Transportation Plan

Vermont's Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) is the State's blueprint for guiding transportation decision-making and investments over the next 20 years. All Vermonter's have a stake in the transportation system's continued development - which may look very different over the course of 20 years.

The growth of new technologies such as autonomous vehicles and 5G cellular networks, demographic changes in the form of an aging population, and evolving changes to the state's primarily services-based economy may require thinking differently about how we plan, build, and manage our transportation system and investments. While maintaining our highways and bridges, public transit, railways, and airports will continue to be major focus areas moving forward, we are likely to focus more on the operational part of our transportation system, such as information systems, signals, and automated message boards and other technology solutions. 

 

2023 Amendment to the Vermont Long-Range Transportation Plan

Why is the Plan Being Amended?

VTrans and FHWA agree that resilience of the transportation system is essential, especially as storms become stronger and more frequent.  As a result, VTrans is preparing a Resilience Improvement Plan (RIP) consistent with the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).  The IIJA established a new federal-aid formula program called “Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost Saving Transportation” (PROTECT). The development of an RIP is encouraged by the PROTECT program and when incorporated into the LRTP will allow for a decrease in the required non-Federal share for projects funded with PROTECT funds. 

What is the Amendment?

The 2018 Vermont LRTP included resilience, for example in the Extreme Weather Events section (P. 37).  Increasing resilience is Goal 1.5 in the 2018 LRTP.

To fulfill PROTECT guidance in the near term, VTrans is amending the 2018 LRTP.  The amendment is to add the bolded text in the table below to reference work on the Resilience Improvement Plan.   

Resilience in 2018 LRTP Goals, Objectives, & Strategies, Plus Amendment (in bold)

Goal 1: Improve safety and security across all transportation modes.

Objectives

Strategies

1.5 Improve the resilience of the transportation system.
  • Design infrastructure to withstand severe weather events.
  • Advance AOT's understanding of transportation system vulnerabilities to severe weather events through ongoing research and development of analytical tools.
  • Incorporate resilience as a factor in project identification, prioritization, and planning and design.
  • Provide technical assistance and support to municipalities to prepare for, withstand, and recover from severe weather events.
  • Update AOT’s Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) to address flooding, cybersecurity and other emerging threats.
  • Proposed addition: Develop and implement a Resilience Improvement Plan consistent with Federal guidance.

The RIP will be incorporated in the 2024 LRTP as one aspect of enhanced VTrans efforts to increase resilience.

How To Comment and By When

Comments are due in writing by March 30, 2023. E-mail may be faster than mail.

Zoe Neaderland, Zoe.Neaderland@vermont.gov
Vermont Agency of Transportation
Policy, Planning & Intermodal Development Division
219 North Main Street
Barre, VT 05641

 

Vermont Long-Range Transportation Plan (2019)

2040 Vermont Long-Range Transportation Plan

Summer 2018 RPC TAC Presentation

Contact 

We welcome and encourage all Vermonters to provide comments on the data and observations presented, as well as ideas on where transportation policy and investments should focus over the next 20 years.

Zoe Neaderland  |  zoe.neaderland@vermont.gov, 802-279-2778    ---   Dave Pelletier  |  dave.pelletier@vermont.gov, 802-595-9675