System Planning

System Planning is Caltrans' long-range transportation planning process. Both multi-modal and multi-jurisdictional, the planning process includes evaluating and recommending for programming improvements to the State transportation system. The process involves these interrelated planning documents:

Transportation Concept Reports (TCR)
For each State highway, the TCR is a document that does the following: identifies current and projected operating conditions on the facility, establishes a 20-year planning concept, identifies facility deficiencies in relation to the concept, and identifies broad and flexible options to achieve the 20-year concept. TCRs supersede Route Concept Reports (RCR). There are a number of routes for which currently only have a Route Concept Report available.

Transportation Planning Fact Sheets
Fact sheets are succinct and frequently updated documents that precede Transportation Concept Reports (TCR). They summarize TCR route concepts and provide corridor statistics and characteristics for State highways and State highway segments.

Corridor System Management Plans (CSMP)
CSMPs provide for the integrated management of travel modes and roadways so as to facilitate the efficient and effective mobility of people and goods within our most congested transportation corridors. Each CSMP presents an analysis of existing and future traffic conditions and proposes traffic management strategies and capital improvements to maintain and enhance mobility within each corridor.

Completed CSMPs in District 5 include the following:

Comprehensive Corridor Study (CCS)
A Comprehensive Corridor Study (CCS) is a planning document which identifies strategies and recommendations that support the long term vision for a corridor. The vision and strategies developed for a corridor are determined through a collaborative effort and are based on an all inclusive analysis of existing conditions and deficiencies.

State Route 46 East Comprehensive Corridor Study

District System Management Plan (DSMP)
The DSMP is a strategic and policy planning document detailing how the District envisions the transportation system will be maintained, managed and developed during the next 20 years.

Transportation System Development Plan (TSDP)
The TSDP addresses State Highway and other modal improvements needed to maintain regional mobility, decrease traffic congestion, and improve system wide connectivity.

Route System / Route Designation Maps
Route System and Route Designation maps show which routes are part of the Interregional Route System Scenic Highway System, National Highway System, Freeway and Expressway System, and other designations.

California Transportation Plan (CTP)
The CTP is a statewide, long-range transportation plan for meeting our future mobility needs.

Central Coast ITS Implementation Plan
The Central Coast ITS Implementation Plan provides an implementation schedule and integrated framework to connect ITS projects together in Caltrans District 5.

Transportation Planning Grants Program
Transportation planning grants promote a balanced, comprehensive multi-modal transportation system. These grants may be used for a wide range of transportation planning purposes, which address local and regional transportation needs and issues. The implementation of these grants should ultimately lead to the adoption, initiation, and programming of transportation improvements.