In-Progress 2027-2055 Regional Transportation Plan

The 2027-2055 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) is the long-range transportation roadmap for the Wasatch Front and the transportation element of the Wasatch Choice Vision. The RTP outlines strategies to enhance and optimize regional roadways, transit, and active transportation to meet the evolving needs of the Wasatch Front, with the goal of creating a transportation system that is more convenient, reliable, healthy, and safe.

Led by WFRC, the RTP guides transportation investments in Davis, Salt Lake, Weber, and southern Box Elder Counties. Updated every four years, the plan is shaped through collaboration with local governments, transportation agencies, community-based organizations, stakeholders, and residents. Through research, stakeholder discussions, technical analysis, and travel modeling, the RTP lists needed projects and associated timelines or phasing for them. Because funding is limited, the RTP is fiscally constrained and focuses on maintaining existing infrastructure, improving safety, and making strategic investments using a performance-based approach.

The RTP advances our Region’s transportation system and quality of life through two complementary strategies:

Optimize the existing system to move more people efficiently and improve access to opportunities with less congestion.
Enhance the system by making targeted investments in new roadways, transit lines, and urban trails to expand transportation options.

This work is coordinated with statewide transportation partners and aligns with Utah’s Unified Transportation Plan.

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What Are Some of the Focus Areas of the RTP?

Exploratory Projects

The Wasatch Choice Vision and RTP outline a bold and forward-thinking future for our Region. In developing the 2027-2055 RTP, WFRC is placing greater emphasis on exploring innovative and exploratory concepts that can shape our transportation system for years to come. This effort is grounded in a careful balance, integrating visionary ideas with practical considerations of context, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness to ensure impactful outcomes for the Region.

Multi-Modal Interaction

When planning transportation systems, analyzing the interactions between different modes of transportation is essential for designing an efficient and user-friendly network. As the 2027-2055 RTP is developed, WFRC is prioritizing strategies to minimize the impacts of planned transportation improvements, ensuring that the network not only meets current mobility needs but also supports economic and community goals. This approach underscores WFRC’s commitment to creating a balanced and integrated transportation system that benefits all users while addressing potential challenges proactively.

Performance Measures

Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) uses a performance-based planning and programming framework that incorporates federal and regional priorities and objectives. WFRC assesses the status of the Region relative to adopted regional goals, Utah’s Unified Transportation Plan, and Federal performance goals. Every RTP, we work to strengthen our performance framework.

Resiliency

To support the region’s growth and adaptability amid future uncertainties - including economic shifts and technological advancements - WFRC is incorporating resiliency in the development of the 2027-2055 RTP. This focus ensures the transportation system remains flexible and capable of meeting the evolving needs of communities, regardless of what the future holds.

Safety

WFRC adopted a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan and a resolution to establish the goal of working towards zero roadway fatalities and serious injuries in 2024. WFRC is committed to continuing to work on evaluating safety to better understand and address safety in the Region through incorporating a safe systems approach, exploring crash factors related to roadway attributes, and facilitating discussions with local communities about roadway, bicycle, and pedestrian safety.

Freight

Freight mobility is a key component of the Wasatch Choice Vision. With the steady growth in e-commerce and continuing changing of shopping habits, there is a need to foster the development of an integrated and coordinated multimodal freight network. WFRC supports communities in facilitating goods movement while maintaining livability. WFRC works closely with UDOT and has reviewed the update to the 2023 Statewide Freight Study to advance freight planning and is a part of advanced air mobility discussions with transportation partners.