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The 2025 Austin Metropolitan Area Transportation Plan guides planning for the future of transportation in Austin.
Growth in Central Texas has increased air pollution worries, and now unhealthy levels of ozone demand our attention. The City’s Air Quality program is an outreach, policy and information resource for Austin's residents. Learn how you can do something to help us achieve healthier air.
The Collector Street Inventory (CSI) summarizes traffic and related information for selected collector streets. The CSI is not a plan. It identifies improvements to streets that are part of the Bicycle Plan or that are needed but not yet planned.
Austin has some of the worst transportation challenges in the nation. The Austin Strategic Mobility Plan (ASMP) brings us together to focus on sustainability, livability and mobility in our community.
The Clean Cities Program works to advance the nation's economic, environmental and energy security by reducing petroleum consumption. Central Texas Clean Cities develops partnerships to promote alternative fuels and vehicles, fuel blends, fuel economy, hybrid vehicles and idle reduction.
The Environmental Suitability Analysis utilizes a set of environmental criteria to measure the sensitivity of potential arterial roadway changes in the Drinking Water Protection Zone (DWPZ).
The Local Area Traffic Management program (LATM) is a request-based program to improve the quality and safety of neighborhood streets. This is achieved by installing devices along streets to slow traffic. These devices include speed humps, speed tables, speed cushions, roundabouts, medians, chicanes and bulbouts.
A parking benefit district (PBD) is designed to improve availability of on-street parking and promote greater walking, cycling and transit use.
Austin’s Residential Permit Parking Program is an initiative designed to give residents a better chance of finding an on-street parking space in their neighborhood.
Right of Way (ROW) is defined as the area controlled by the City. It is usually defined as the roadway plus 10 feet behind the curb. This definition of the City Right of Way may vary depending on the physical conditions at any given location.
Frequently Asked Questions
Local Area Traffic Management
LATM does provide a process for addressing cut-through traffic. However since this process is so new and the process to evaluate cut-through traffic is so lengthy, LATM is not addressing cut-through traffic issues at this time.
If a request does not meet the criteria to progress through the process, you will receive written notification, by letter or email. Periodically throughout the process, a list will be posted of projects that are eligible for the program and projects that are funded. These lists will be posted on the Austin Transportation Department website and the Community Registry website.
The types and locations of devices are based on engineering principles and judgment. Only in unique or special circumstances will location or selection of devices be reconsidered.
1. You may drop off your request at:
505 Barton Springs Road, Suite 800
2.You can also mail your request to:
Local Area Traffic Management
Austin Transportation Department
505 Barton Springs Rd., Suite 800
Austin, Texas 78704
1. You may drop off your request at:
505 Barton Springs Road, Suite 800
2. You can also mail your request to:
Local Area Traffic Management
Austin Transportation Department
505 Barton Springs Rd., Suite 800
Austin, Texas 78704
At this time, only hard copy applications are being accepted.
This is a two-part answer:
This first part is that the street must be eligible. For a street to be eligible, it must meet several criteria, including:
• It must be a City of Austin street
• It is not a major arterial
• If a minor arterial, it must have 60% front facing residential, schools or parkland
• The measured 85 percentile of traffic exceeds the posted speed by 3 miles per hour
• The requester must live along street/segment
• It has a speed limit of 40 mph or less
• It must be paved
• It can not be a duplicate request
• Any previously installed devices have been in place for at least 2 years
• It is not an alley
• It has no more than one lane of moving traffic in each direction. A continuous center turn lane is not considered a travel lane for this evaluation.
• The measured 85 percentile of traffic exceeds the speed limit by 3 miles per hour.
The second part of the answer is that not all eligible requests will be funded. All eligible requests will be compared to identify the most needy cases. This comparison is based on the following weighted criteria:
• Speed Factor – number of cars exceeding speed limit +5, and not less than 35 mph
• Truck Traffic
• Number of auto crashes in the last 12 months
• Institutional (school or park) proximity
• Number of Auto/Pedestrian and Auto/Bicycle Crashes in the past 12 months
• Absences of sidewalks
• Residential Land Use
• Bicycle Route
• Front Facing Residential
• Evidence of Support (petition)
• Whether the street is within an Environmental Justice area
• Diversion of traffic
Each eligible request will be ranked for funding according to the criteria above. The higher the ranking for funding number, the more likely a request is to be funded.
If a request is eligible but not funded, it gets put back into consideration with the new and older unfunded projects, and ranked according to its ranking for funding score. An unfunded project will be reconsidered for funding for up to 4 more funding cycles, or for an additional 2 years.
After 2 years, an unfunded request expires. A new request may be submitted at that time.
