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  Transportation Planning

As the premier transportation authority in the City of Los Angeles, the Department of Transportation sets and achieves long-term outcomes for the City’s transportation needs. An important component in achieving transportation goals, transportation planning determines what actions will best address changing traffic patterns.

Transportation planners at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation work with the Department of City Planning to develop traffic projections for the City of Los Angeles. To forecast these projections, the two departments identify what conditions will affect traffic in the future and how traffic amounts and patterns will change.

LADOT transportation planners then use the traffic projections to make recommendations to 35 Community Plans administered by the Department of City Planning. The Department of Transportation recommendations sometimes influence the Department of City Planning to impose zoning changes to those plans.

 
The LADOT and Department of City Planning local projections are based upon the Southern California Association of Governments’ Regional Transportation Plan. Analysts of the Southern California Association of Governments evaluate many factors to develop the Regional Transportation Plan. They consider the following:

    
   
  • Travel demand and daily trip figures
  • Population distribution forecasts
  • Land use
  • Amount of travel between different developments and land uses
  • Frequently used travel routes
  • Additional capacity needed on transportation routes
  • Possible transportation improvement projects and their costs
  • Funding sources for improvement projects
    
 
 
The Regional Transportation Plan is updated every three years, in accordance with federal law. The plan develops projections for a five-county area, including:

    
       
 


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