Case Study:

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Context

Regional Transportation Plan

The San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Metropolitan Area is facing an anticipated 29 percent increase in population and a 42 percent increase in jobs between 1998 and 2020. Rather than responding to growth with major new highway projects, the 1998 Regional Transportation Plan focuses on maintaining and improving existing highway and transit systems. Fifty-three percent of funding in the $88 billion plan is directed toward maintaining and operating the area's existing public transportation network, including buses and rail transit. Most of the remaining funds are directed toward roadway maintenance, expansion of the HOV-lane system, freeway and arterial management systems, and localized interchange and capacity improvements.

The complete set of projects included in the RTP is identified on a corridor-by-corridor basis in the full RTP document.

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