Planning For Northern Virginia's Future
NVTA’s Strategic Plan serves as a guide for Authority members and staff to expand upon adopted goals for advancing Northern Virginia’s transportation network. The overarching strategy for the Strategic Plan focuses on NVTA’s primary responsibilities, while expanding NVTA’s range of services to address other urgent and unmet regional transportation needs.
2025-2030 Strategic Plan Status
Current Status: NVTA’s Vision Statement, Mission Statement, and Core Values were formally adopted at the May 8, 2025 Authority meeting. Additionally, four Strategic Goals for the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan were adopted.
Next Steps: NVTA staff will begin to draft strategies and metrics associated with the approved Goals, with anticipated adoption of the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan in fall 2025.
Prior Work: NVTA closed out the inaugural 2017 Strategic Plan with a Closeout Report, providing the status of NVTA’s progress as of September 2024 regarding the strategies and actions associated with each goal outlined.
NVTA staff presented the Closeout Report on September 12, 2024. The presentation highlighted NVTA’s accomplishments and initiatives toward advancing the goals of Regional Prosperity, Mobility, Innovation and Funding.
2017 Strategic Plan Overview
This inaugural Strategic Plan served as a guide for Authority members and staff to expand upon accomplishments and outlined strategic goals of Regional Prosperity, Mobility, Innovation and Funding. Each goal contained a preface to provide context and clarity to the goal, strategies and related actions. Achievement of these goals will ensure the Authority is continuing to grow and strengthen as the regional leader for transportation planning, programming and funding.
- Regional Prosperity: Foster regional prosperity by investing in a sustainable transportation network that supports economic growth, while balancing quality of life.
- Mobility: Through sound planning and programming, increase transportation connectivity and available transportation options to reduce congestion.
- Innovation: Lead region in planning and advocating for emerging transportation technologies which address future transportation, work place and development trends.
- Funding: Support transportation infrastructure development through excellent stewardship of tax payer dollars, maximizing opportunities from existing sources, and advocating for additional transportation revenues.