Caltrans System Investment Strategy (CSIS)

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is committed to leading climate action and advancing social equity in the transportation sector set forth by the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI, 2021). The CAPTI supports the California Transportation Plan (CTP) 2050 (2021) goals that works to meet the State’s ambitious climate change mandates, targets, and policies set forth by Executive Order (EO) N-19-19 and N-79-20, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Caltrans is in a significant leadership role to carry out meaningful measures that advance state’s goals and priorities through the development and implementation of the Caltrans System Investment Strategy (CSIS). The CSIS, which implements one of CAPTI’s key actions, is envisioned to be an investment framework through a data and performance-driven approach that guides transportation investments and decisions. This framework includes methodologies and processes for how Caltrans should invest billions of dollars of highly competitive fund programs that will address transportation deficiencies while also achieving the CAPTI Guiding Principles.

CSIS Pilot Results

Caltrans System Investment Strategy, or CSIS, is a policy-level document that establishes an investment framework for evaluation of transportation infrastructure projects and was used to guide decisions regarding Caltrans' investments for various competitive funding programs. The CSIS was piloted on Caltrans’ Senate Bill 1 (SB1) project nominations for Cycle 4 of the Trade Corridor Enhancement Program (TCEP) and Solutions for Congested Corridor Program (SCCP). Scores from the pilot are available at the links below.

The scores shared in the links above are results of evaluations performed consistent with the
CSIS (PDF) policy document and the CAPTI Alignment Framework (PDF).

Any questions or comments can be sent to: csis@dot.ca.gov

Caltrans is committed to future refinements of the CSIS framework that may be necessary due to emerging priorities, evolving data and methodologies, or feedback from this funding cycle.

Caltrans is planning to conduct additional stakeholder engagement to address potential future refinements to the CSIS and information on those future workshops will be posted in the CSIS Public Workshops accordion below.