Connections 2050 sets a goal to increase the region’s mobility and reliability, while reducing congestion and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by developing a safe, integrated, and accessible multimodal transportation network. Decreasing VMT can reduce a number of negative environmental impacts from transportation—air and noise pollution, greenhouse gas emissions—and lessen the demand to widen roads—which can increase stormwater runoff, fragment green space and wildlife habitat, and reinforce auto dependence.
Connections 2050 sets a goal to integrate the infrastructure we use to move around the region into an accessible, multimodal transportation network, with transit, walking, and biking serving as fundamental components. Increasing the share of people choosing to use transit, walking, biking, and/or carpooling–as opposed to driving alone–reduces congestion, lessens roadway maintenance needs, improves air quality, and decreases the region's carbon footprint.
ctions 2050 sets a goal to rebuild and modernize the region’s transportation assets in order to achieve and maintain a state-of-good repair. This is tough work for our state departments of transportation, as our aging infrastructure creates competing needs for maintenance funding.
The DVRPC Board has approved $600,000 toward six projects in New Jersey through the Transportation and Community Development Initiative (TCDI) grant program. TCDI grants utilize federal transportation funds to support planning initiatives that further our region’s progress toward DVRPC’s vision for an equitable, resilient, and sustainable region.
On February 1, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a historic $800 million in grant awards for 510 projects through the new Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program, a record amount of funding to improve roads and address traffic fatalities. DVRPC was awarded $1.47 million for its Regional Vision Zero 2050 Action Program.
