Transportation Planning Division's Strategic Plan
From the Executive Summary:
"The Transportation Planning Division (TPD) of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) plays an important role in long range planning, project planning, and ultimately the delivery of a top quality multimodal transportation system, across the state of North Carolina. TPD provides critical functions at the statewide, regional, and local levels by providing essential transportation planning services and products. These services include developing long range transportation plans, such as Comprehensive Transportation Plans (CTPs), and providing technical services such as traffic forecasting and travel demand model development. Each of these activities and products are guided by TPD’s mission to deliver a premier planning process that is integral to a high performing, multimodal transportation system in North Carolina.
The intent of TPD’s Strategic Plan is to align the Division’s activities and deliverables with for TPD to consider. This diverse feedback helped TPD leadership determine the strategic goals, objectives, and action items it needs to advance the next evolution of transportation planning within NCDOT. Advancing NC’s Mobility Future its overarching vision, mission, and values. The Strategic Plan was developed through collaboration with TPD staff, NCDOT internal partners, and external partners who offered feedback on how TPD might best serve its customers. Additionally, a survey of peer agencies was conducted to understand trending industry topics and best practices.
TPD STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
GOAL 1: BE A NATIONAL LEADER IN PLANNING PRACTICES
TPD aims to be a national leader in planning practices by engaging with partners and other agencies at various levels to explore, learn, and implement best practice transportation planning and decision-making. Additionally, TPD will act as a leader in the planning practice by forging a cohesive relationship with federal partners to support federal programs and funding opportunities.
GOAL 2: STRENGTHEN TPD’S BRAND/IDENTITY
TPD aspires to be seen as the steward of all products, services, and institutional knowledge related to planning within NCDOT. To strengthen brand and identity, TPD aims to clearly define its vision and priorities, act as a trusted partner for internal and external stakeholders, and bring awareness to its value as a resource for planning information.
GOAL 3: STRENGTHEN THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING
TPD aims to strengthen the role of planning in the project development process by consistently and thoughtfully linking planning to its succeeding steps. Improving this connection can be achieved by better integrating land use in transportation planning and decision-making, as well as by staying engaged with other state, division, and local programming and planning activities.
GOAL 4: BE THE NORTH CAROLINA LEADER IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY PLANNING AND OTHER FUTURE DISRUPTIONS
TPD will support NCDOT’s plan for resiliency and sustainability, be at the forefront of statewide emerging technology initiatives, and proactively prepare for future disruptions to the transportation industry.
GOAL 5: PROVIDE PREMIER, TAILORED CUSTOMER SERVICE
TPD will provide premier, tailored customer service to both its internal partners at NCDOT as well as its external partners. TPD is positioned to be a trusted statewide resource for transportation data and information and other planning resources needed across NCDOT, as well as by regional and local planning partners.
GOAL 6: BE AN ATTRACTIVE PLACE TO WORK
Promoting a diverse, high-caliber staff; creating redundancy and resiliency of institutional knowledge; and ensuring transparent relationships between leadership and staff are all key components of making TPD an attractive place to work. TPD also aims to foster an environment where staff continually pursue professional development in technical skills as well as innovative planning practices."
See here for the full plan.
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