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Introduction
Updated every four years, the San Francisco Transportation Plan is the blueprint for the city's transportation system development and investment over the next 30 years. Through analysis, interagency collaboration, and public engagement, staff evaluate how to prioritize expected and potential new revenues to advance transportation goals of equity, economic vitality, environmental sustainability, safety and livability, and accountability and engagement.
The plan analyzes all transportation options like transit, walking, driving, and biking to set investment priorities and advance the city’s goal to build an effective, equitable, and sustainable transportation system. The SFTP also positions San Francisco projects for federal, state, and regional funds.
See the San Francisco Transportation Plan 2050.
San Francisco Transportation Plan 2050+
Every two years, there is a “minor” update that analyzes key assumptions and inputs that have developed since the SFTP (last approved in 2022), and refines investment strategies and recommendations.
SFTP 2050+ will result in a minor update to the SFTP 2050. This document will inform San Francisco’s advocacy for discretionary (e.g. competitive) transportation funds, as well as for new transportation revenues. The purpose of SFTP+ is to incorporate post-pandemic travel patterns, lowered revenue projections, revised land-use allocation, and refine SFTP investment strategies and recommendations. This minor update will compile and update major transportation and climate investments for the City and County with a recovery-oriented context. This process will incorporate data and guidance from MTC’s Plan Bay Area 2050+ and Transit 2050+ as well as provide the basis for San Francisco's input to PBA 2050+.
In addition to investment strategies, the SFTP examines policy and programmatic needs to help reach the City’s long-range goals and can make policy recommendations that can be adopted as Transportation Authority policies and/or recommended for adoption by partner entities. We will update policy developments and report on implementation progress of SFTP 2050 and recommendations from ConnectSF Streets and Freeways Strategy and Transit Strategy.
Timeline
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Fall 2024
Interagency coordination begins and is ongoing throughout the process
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Spring 2025
Round 1 Outreach
Input needed on Investment and Vision Plan priorities. -
Winter 2026
Round 2 Outreach
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Spring 2026
Draft Plan
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Summer 2026
Final Plan
Stay tuned for SFTP+ engagement opportunities.
December 6, 2022 Transportation Authority Board
Presentation (PDF)
San Francisco Transportation Plan 2050 Documents (released 2022)
The SFTP includes:
- An Investment Plan to guide the allocation of $80 billion in existing and anticipated transportation revenues through 2050
- A Vision Plan to guide the allocation of an additional $15 billion potential new transportation revenues through 2050
- Policy initiatives to complement the Investment Plan and Vision Plan
- Guidance for implementation and monitoring
San Francisco Transportation Plan 2050 (PDF)
Appendix A SFTP 2050 Investment Plan Development Process (PDF)
Appendix B Revenue Assumptions Table (PDF)
Appendix C SF-CHAMP Analysis Methodology Memo (PDF)
Appendix D Equity Evaluation (PDF)
Appendix E Public Outreach Summary (PDF)
Appendix F Streets and Freeways Survey Safety Preferences Findings (PDF)
Previous San Francisco Transportation Plan Documents
San Francisco Transportation Plan 2040 Update (released 2017)
The 2017 minor update builds off the plan passed in 2013. The 2017 update:
- Reaffirms the 2013 plan’s goals, investment, and supporting policy recommendations
- Includes a progress report on projects, policies, and planning studies
- Revises transportation funding revenue forecasts, updates project costs, and reassesses projects previously identified for funding
- Includes an overview of existing and future conditions—such as population and employment growth, traffic congestion, and affordability trends that impact San Francisco’s transportation system
- Identifies new planning efforts and policy papers that are underway or anticipated to begin soon that will focus on key issues facing San Francisco.
These analyses guided advocacy in the update to Plan Bay Area 2040, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s federally and state-mandated regional planning effort.
2017 San Francisco Transportation Plan Update (PDF)
San Francisco Transportation Plan 2040 (released 2013)
The 2013 San Francisco Transportation Plan articulated two transportation investment scenarios through 2040, identified potential new revenues and established an Early Action Program for the first five years of investments. In addition, the 2013 plan includes policy recommendations and strategic initiatives to complement the investment scenarios as well as in-depth analysis on circulation in the growing core of the city, transportation equity, visitor trips, and project delivery.
San Francisco Transportation Plan 2040 (PDF)
Appendix A Plan Development Process (PDF)
Appendix B Needs Analysis White Paper (PDF)
Appendix C Core Circulation Study (PDF)
Appendix D Revenue Assumptions (PDF)
Appendix E Outreach Summary (PDF)
Appendix F Transportation Equity Analysis (PDF)
Appendix G Summary of SFTP Policy Recommendations (PDF)
Appendix H Small Project Delivery White Paper (PDF)
Appendix I Large Project Delivery White Paper (PDF)
Appendix J Plan Performance Summary (PDF)
Appendix K SF Travel At a Glance (PDF)
Countywide Plan (released 2004)
The first plan, the Countywide Transportation Plan, was adopted by the Transportation Authority Board in July 2004, and established the City's investment strategy and policy initiatives for the sector through a technical and community-based planning process.
2004 Countywide Plan (PDF)
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