Burlington County has grown by more than 50,000 residents and 25,000 jobs since the County last prepared a Highway Master Plan in 1989. An almost equal number of people and jobs are forecasted to be added by the Year 2040.

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) was commissioned to update the Highway Master Plan to supply a vision and implementation framework for the County highway network that can sustainably complement long-term County growth patterns. The foundation of the Burlington County Highway Master Plan is based on the goals to maintain existing county highway infrastructure and modernize it to meet current and future demands and to have adequate rights-of-way provided for future road widening and intersection improvements.

The County Route (CR) network is vital to everday movement in the County, and it plays an important role in interconnecting with the New Jersey Turnpike and interstate highway system. The CR Network carries NJ Transit and BurLink bus routes, provides access to stations along the NJ Transit RiverLINE, and serves as a scenic route network in the Pinelands.

Performance indicators for the road network, as well as land use conditions, were assembled for current and forecasted conditions. The conditions were assessed using DVRPC's Traffic Management Process (TMP) to identify candidate improvement strategies for the County road network.

This webmap provides an interactive look at the information that informed the analysis and the resulting improvement strategies. The base year for the analysis was 2013, while 2040 was used as the forecast year when necessary.

UPDATE (October 2021): Layers on the Right-of-way tab were modified to include the following roads after they came under County jurisdiction: Hartford Road (US 130 to Garwood Rd), Fairview Blvd (US 130 to Hartford Rd), and Dulty's Lane. Recommendations for these segments were assigned based on the County roads they replaced and were not analyzed using the same methods as the rest of the County road segments.

The conditions analysis includes snapshots of measurable information about the County's road network. This information was used as part of the evaluation method to help identify location-appropriate improvement strategies.

Resources include transportation, land use, and community planning attributes associated with the roadway segment or adjacent lands that may offer opportunities or pose constraints along a highway segment. This information can be used to help identify strategies for improvements and inform highway planning decisions.

DVRPC conducts a continuing, comprehensive and cooperative process for transportation planning, programming, and decision-making. Two important outcomes of this process are the Long-Range Plan (LRP) and Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The Traffic Management Process (TMP) provides medium-term planning to strengthen the connection between the Long-Range Plan (LRP) and the regional Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The TMP is rooted in the DVRPC Congestion Management Process (CMP), which provides medium-term planning to strengthen the connection between the Long-Range Plan (LRP) and the regional Transportation Improvement Program (TIP).

Federal regulations require that alternatives to building new Single Occupancy Vehicle (SOV) road capacity be explored. Even where new capacity is found to be appropriate and necessary, multimodal supplemental strategies to get the most long-term value from the investment must be included. The TMP identifies these multimodal strategies for congested corridors, and projects that add SOV capacity must be consistent with the TMP in order to be eligible for federal funding.

Inventorying current plans, programs, and pipelined projects is an important part of identifying candidate improvement strategies for the County's highway infrastructure. The components below include physical improvements related to the plans and programs that will address traffic safety and affect mobility. Projects that will deliver mobility changes were included in the Year 2040 LRP scenario to estimate future traffic conditions.

The right-of-way map is the paramount planning tool contained within the Burlington County Highway Master Plan. This tool provides ultimate rights-of-way and desired roadway cross-sections for Burlington County engineers and planners to assess land development applications. It provides guidance in the design of land development projects submitted by applicants and roadway improvements undertaken by land development applicants, utilities, and governmental agencies.

Capacity Assessment

An analysis was conducted to determine the volume-to-capacity (V/C) ratio of each CR segment. V/C ratio represents the ability of a roadway to accommodate (capacity) vehicular demand (volume), and it is a measure of traffic congestion. As the V/C ratio approaches 1, vehicles may experience delay or queuing. Therefore, a V/C ratio greater than 0.85 indicates that there may be a potential need to increase roadway capacity in the future.

Ultimate Right-of-Way

The ultimate right-of-way shall be used to assess CR segments with a V/C ratio of 0.85 or greater. The updated right-of-way map identifies ultimate right-of-way widths for each county road segment. These widths were determined based on the roadway functional classification, land use area, and NJDOT and federal standards. They are wider than the desired typical cross sections because they incorporate the ideal width of all multimodal facilities and, in most cases, on-street parking.

Desired Typical Cross Section

The desired typical cross section shall be the reference for CR segments with a V/C ratio below 0.85. In these cases, conservative capacity enhancements coupled with multimodal improvements are appropriate. The desired typical cross sections are more closely tied to existing conditions than the ultimate right-of-way widths, and they serve as a guide for implementing multimodal facilities. It is important to note that they do not identify the exact facilities that should be implemented on every CR segment of a specific functional class.