The Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program is required pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes §28-304 and is approved annually by the State Transportation Board (Board). The Five-Year Program contains the programs and projects to be developed and constructed by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) over the next five years on Interstates, state highways, and certain local roads, along with the estimated costs. ADOT is responsible for developing and constructing the projects in the Five-Year Program, and for maintaining the Interstates and state highways. As part of the implementation of the plan, ADOT has assessed its current programming policies and practices. This assessment provided a direct connection between the plan’s Recommended Investment Choice and ADOT’s programming process. The primary objective of this assessment was to ensure the alignment of decision-making with the plan’s goals, objectives, performance measures, and policies, including an opportunity to improve its transparency, credibility, understandability, and effectiveness. The outcome is a strategy that links long-range transportation planning to the state’s Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program.

Strategic investment levels are identified and included in the Long-Range Transportation Plan, which is normally updated every five years. The 2023 plan established recommended policy direction for allocation of future revenues across the following three major investment categories:

● Preservation (78%) – Activities that preserve transportation infrastructure by sustaining asset condition or extending asset service life.

● Modernization (15%) – Highway improvements that upgrade efficiency, functionality, and safety without adding capacity.

● Expansion (7%) – Improvements that add transportation capacity through the addition of new highways or new lanes to existing highways.

Adherence to these allocations is measured over the term of each Five-Year Program.

Today’s presentation is a summary of ADOT’s planned design and construction of over $8.1 billion dollars programmed for 2025 through 2029.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:

Brent Conner, PE, Assistant State Materials Engineer ADOT

Brent attended Texas Tech University and has 35 years of Materials/Geotechnical design and construction experience in Arizona. His employers have included the Bureau of Reclamation, Western Technologies, Stantec, and the Arizona DOT. Signature projects include New Waddell Dam (90-92), Roosevelt Dam Raise (92-94), Sky Harbor Expansion (95-2000), and ADOT (2000–Current). Brent is ADOT’s Assistant State Materials Engineer.