San Antonio-Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization

Texas Metropolitan Mobility Plan (TMMP)

Congestion in metropolitan areas is bad for Texas. Travel delays related to congestion result in loss of productivity, reduced air quality, reduced quality of life and increased costs for services and goods. Metropolitan areas across the state have experienced tremendous growth in the past decades without adequate funding to increase transportation system capacity.

The Texas Metropolitan Mobility Plan (TMMP) is a significant step in increasing local control of metropolitan transportation planning and funding to reduce urban congestion and improving quality of life. The planning process that drove the development of each of the regional mobility plans that comprise the TMMP was developed through a joint coordinated effort between the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) representing the eight Transportation Management Areas (Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas/Fort Worth, El Paso, Houston, Lubbock, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley), and the Texas Transportation Institute.

While the federally required long range transportation plan (Metropolitan Transportation Plan, "Mobility 2030") is financially constrained, identifying only what can be afforded given anticipated funding streams, the TMMP goes one step further and is a needs-based plan, which quantifies transportation needs beyond the fiscal constraint barrier. Each area's regional mobility plan focuses on the magnitude of unmet needs and provides decision-makers with a better idea of the total transportation needs for each region and shows that current mobility needs are not being adequately met and that additional funding is needed.

Each regional mobility plan includes strategies to reduce congestion and improve system mobility by using all modes of transportation. The TMMP allows each of the metropolitan areas flexibility to develop plans unique to their needs, anticipate realistic baseline allocation of funds, arrange for gap funding and use new and improved methods for streamlined project delivery

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Texas Metropolitan Mobility Plan

The federal government requires MPOs to develop a fiscally constrained long range transportation plan known as the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). Although the MTP is important to the region, the State of Texas has recognized the importance of identifying transportation needs. This update to the Texas Metropolitan Transportation Plan (TMMP) focuses not only on the mobility needs of each area, but also expands the discussion of public transportation, bicycle, pedestrian, roadway rehabilitation and safety needs. The TMMP Update process has shown that the San Antonio-Bexar County Region needs an additional 2,030 lane mile equivalents in order to reduce congestion to an identified acceptable level by 2030. This transportation system expansion comes with a cost of over $7.5 billion. The funding “gap” amount must be found above and beyond this area’s traditional state and federal funding allocation and the financial tools that are already planned to be in place. The importance of the term “lane mile equivalents” cannot be overstated. Because all modes of transportation are important to move people, actions to reduce congestion are not limited to additional roadways or adding more travel lanes. Congestion can also be reduced by improving transit service frequency and coverage, implementing operational improvements such as right and left turn lanes at intersections and optimizing traffic signals. Investing more funding in rideshare programs can also reduce congestion, especially near certain activity centers.