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Bureau of Land Management National Long Range Transportation Plan

Date and Time: Wednesday, July 26: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom A

 

Lead Presenter: Emily Navarrete

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Speaker Biography

Co-Authors 

Rosemarie Spano, Transportation Program Manager, Bureau of Land Management

Presentation Description/Paper Summary

The U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published its first-ever National Long Range Transportation Plan (the Plan), Transportation Connections 2040 on October 5, 2021, as a practical tool to convey the BLM’s strategic goals and vision for travel and transportation planning and transportation asset management. The Plan was titled Transportation Connections 2040 to emphasize that transportation is about making connections to BLM-managed public lands for the wide range of travelers that use those lands for work, enjoyment, or inter-community travel. The BLM’s transportation system includes particularly important connectors for many rural communities throughout the U.S.; the Plan provides the strategic direction to help the BLM improve these physical connections on the land. The Plan also builds and strengthens the virtual connections that the BLM’s transportation program relies on, both between program areas within the BLM and with the many local, state, and national partners that allow the BLM to achieve more than it can on its own.

Since publishing the Plan, the BLM developed a Performance Management Plan that identifies baseline data, trends, and targets for the performance measures in the Plan and establishes procedures for ongoing monitoring. The Performance Management Plan helps the BLM evaluate how well the agency is meeting its transportation goals and whether to adjust management practices to improve transportation conditions. The BLM intends to use its National Long Range Transportation Plan and Performance Management Plan to inform future transportation investments over the next 20+ years.

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