Remaining Needs by MPO
Miami-Dade
The framework designed in Miami-Dade TPO’s Needs Plan highlights critical infrastructure improvements, including operations, maintenance, and capacity expansions. The Plan envisions alternative future scenarios that reflect varying funding priorities and evolving mobility needs.
Additionally, the 2016 Smart Plan - now known as the SMART Program - initiatives initiatives need to be implemented to enhance rapid transit corridors and improve regional connectivity.
Broward
The projects identified in the Broward MPO's Route to 2050 Needs Plan accounts for current and future transportation demands without financial constraints, ensuring a comprehensive approach. This includes all projects from the Trend and Community Vision scenarios, transit improvements from the Compact Development Scenario, and climate change impact mitigation studies from the Infrastructure Hardening Scenario. Congestion Management Process projects are another incorporated priority, as well as the needs identified in previous plans and studies.
Palm Beach
The multimodal needs outlined in the Vision 2050 Plan encompass active transportation, transit expansion, roadway capacity improvements, freight network enhancements, electric and alternative fuel infrastructure, and the integration of emerging technologies and intelligent transportation systems. Operations, maintenance, and resilience strategies are developed based on LRTP analysis, studies conducted by the TPA and partner agencies, and feedback from public engagement efforts. This approach ensures that transportation planning remains adaptive to evolving community needs and regional priorities.
Determining Regional Transportation Needs
The Cost Feasible Plan details the regional transportation priorities that can be covered by available funds over the next 20 years, but this still leaves some important needs unaddressed. Below is a breakdown of how we determine what takes top priority as funds become available and what still needs to be done in each county.
The region’s approach to identifying and addressing these needs follows a structured, performance-driven process. Performance-Based Planning and Programming (PBPP) means investment decisions line up with measurable outcomes and regional goals. Federal law requires MPOs to develop LRTPs using a performance-driven, outcome-based approach to ensure accountability and efficiency in transportation planning. The PBPP framework incorporates all transportation modes and ensures that regional investments support mobility, sustainability, and economic vitality. In other words, the solutions that work best take top priority.
