Destination Tomorrow 2010

Destination Tomorrow - the 2010-2035 Regional Long-range Transportation Plan for the urbanized area of Portland - is a comprehensive plan outlining policies and strategies for maintaining the best of the existing transportation system and transforming the system to safely and efficiently accommodate all modes. The emphasis is on balancing the system among the many transportation modes: motorized vehicles, non-motorized vehicles such as bicycles, rail and bus transit, and pedestrians, while utilizing transportation demand/systems management techniques and technologies to improve mobility for all modes.

The Plan provides a vision for the transportation system through 2035 with supporting policies and strategies for achieveing the vision. Destination Tomorrow calls for a high level of coordination between land use and transportation investments which also requires continuouis coordination between our members and funding partners, the Maine DOT and the Maine Turnpike Authority.

Today's challenging fiscal, political, and social dynamics are fully considered and acknowledged within the Plan.

Award Winning Plan

• Destination Tomorrow was voted best plan of 2003 by the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association (NNECAPA - Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine).
• The Maine Association of Planners (MAP) voted Destination Tomorrow as the best plan in Maine in 2003.

This page contains downloadable documents from the update to Destination Tomorrow - PACTS Regional Transportation Plan 2010.  The documents are in final form. A public hearing on the 2010 Update was held on October 28th, 2010 at the Clarion Hotel in Portland. 

PACTS Regional Transportation Plan 2010

Cover, Introduction and Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  Executive Summary

Chapter 2:  Plan Background

Chapter 3: Present Conditions, Trends, and Future Choices: Transportation and Land Use

Chapter 4: Policies and Strategies

Chapter 5: Financial Assessment

Chapter 6: Implementation

Appendix A:  Public Process

Appendix B:  Transportation Priorities Survey (2008)

Appendix C:  PACTS Implementation Procedures

Appendix D:  Assumptions and Methodology for Forecasts of Population, Employment and  

Housing ((Gorham East-West Corridor Feasibility Study)

Appendix E:  PACTS Land Use Policy

Appendix F:  Interstate 95 and 295 Strategy #16 specifics

Appendix G:  Climate Change and Transportation in Maine: Impacts on Transportation

Appendix H:  Federal Highway and Transit Administrations air quality conformity analysis 

 

Below are downloadable documents from the Destination Tomorrow 2006 Plan.

Destination Tomorrow 2006

Table of Contents & Acknowledgments

Chapter 1.  Executive Summary

Chapter 2.  Plan Background

Chapter 3.  Present Conditions & Future Trends

Chapter 4.  Alternatives Analysis
Chapter 5.  Guiding Policies, Goals and Strategies

Chapter 6.  Finance Assessment

Chapter 7.  Implementation

Appendix A.  Public Comments

Appendix B.  Municipal Land use Development Trends

Appendix C.  Major Corridors

Appendix D.  Intersection Capacity Analysis

Appendix E.  Population and Employment Forecast

Appendix F.  Automobile Travel Time & Speed Delay Analyses

Appendix G.  Corridor & Facility-Specific Impacts

Appendix H.  Qualitative Performance Measure Strategy