The Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) is a listing of proposed financially feasible transportation improvement projects needed to meet the future travel demand of people and goods in the Broward County urban area. These projects include pedestrian, bicycle, transit, waterborne, greenways, and roadway facilities. The LRTP covers a 20-year period and used by transportation officials and decision makers to guide the expenditure of transportation dollars. Traditionally, the LRTP has focused on road building to improve travel conditions for the automobile-driving public, with less attention paid to improving conditions for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users. As Broward County becomes more densely developed, it becomes essential to plan for a more comprehensive transportation system that serves the needs of travelers using all modes of transportation, and to provide reasonable mobility options to all citizens.

Although the LRTP covers a 20-year period, it is updated every five years in Broward County because the county was designated as an attainment area for ground ozone. The LRTP is also reviewed once a year as part of the transportation planning process to determine if a minor update is needed. The current LRTP was adopted by the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in December of 2004 with horizon year of 2030 and was amended in the following dates:

• June 2007 to comply with SAFETEA-LU regulations.
• July 2007 to include I-95 Managed Lane Project.
• March 2008 to address the public/private partnership to implement I595 Corridor Improvement Project.

The 2030 LRTP was developed using a computerized travel forecast model called the Florida Standard Urban Transportation Model Structure (FSUTMS). This model projects future travel demand using input data such as population, employment, school enrollment, the highway network, and the transit network. The model was validated for base year 2000 to ensure its capability to simulate future travel demand.

The air quality component of the LRTP is known as the Conformity Determination Report (CDR). The CDR summarizes the emissions generated by on-road motor vehicles and its findings determine if the plan is in violation of the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). After Broward was designated as an attainment area, the CDR is no longer required.

The following reports are available for viewing and downloading:

2030 LRTP Final Report (PDF File), which documents in detail how the plan was developed, is available below. This report was divided into chapters for easy download, click on the links below to view each chapter:

2030 LRTP Executive Summary - pdf file(807 KB).
This 36-page report presents a summary of how the plan was developed.

2030 Conformity Determination Report (CDR) - pdf file (382 KB).
This report documents the impact on air quality, which will result from implementing the 2030 LRTP.

The following input data to the FSUTMS model are available for download only:

[bo00b.zip] (5,682 KB) computer input data for model validation 2000.

[bo30b.zip] (4,989 KB) computer input data for the 2030 LRTP.

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