Updated Policy Directive 14.0 “Policy Guiding Statewide Plan Goals and Objectives”

On November 19, 2020, the Transportation Commission adopted the updated Policy Directive 14.0 with revised performance goals and objectives to measure the success of the Department’s efforts to improve in safety, asset management, and mobility. The performance goal areas were changed to better guide the implementation of the new multimodal Statewide Transportation Plan. The revised performance goals also support the national goals for surface transportation in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015. Objectives in previous goal areas have been realigned into the new goal structure or have been modified.

Additionally, the updated Policy Directive aligns objectives with other key guiding policies such as the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap and HB19-1261 (“Climate Action Plan to Reduce Pollution”). Nine new defined terms were added to support the revised goal areas and other guiding policies, which include: Carbon Dioxide Equivalents, Colorado DOT Transit Asset Management Group Plan, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, State of Good Repair, Telecommuting, Transit Economic Requirements Model, Unlinked Passenger Trips, Vulnerable Users, and Zero-Emission Vehicles. Finally, Appendix “B” for the Department’s Transit Asset Management and Appendix “C” for Strategic Transportation Safety Plan (STSP) Tier 1 Strategies were included.

Per Updated Policy Directive 14, the Colorado Department of Transportation will work collaboratively with other state agencies and local partners to reduce statewide GHG pollution from the transportation sector by twenty-six percent (26%) by 2025, fifty percent (50%) by 2030, and ninety percent (90%) by 2050 relative to 2005 statewide GHG pollution levels.

Transportation Sector Emissions Reduction Target

Per Updated Policy Directive 14, Colorado has a target to increase electric vehicle registrations to support a future fleet of at least nine-hundred forty thousand (940,000) light-duty zero-emission vehicles by 2030.

Light-Duty ZEV Registration Goal

Per Updated Policy Directive 14, Colorado has a target to reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and VMT per capita by ten percent (10%) on or before 2030, relative to current levels.

2030 VMT Reduction Target

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