POLICY

Guiding Documents

Regional plans provide a framework for coordinated transportation planning. These guiding documents address regionally-significant facilities or services and inform future planning and investment decisions. They are developed in collaboration with local agencies and stakeholders to ensure consistency between local and regional efforts.

2025 Thurston Regional Transportation Plan: Guiding Our Future
The Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) serves as a strategic blueprint for the region’s transportation system. It provides an overall analysis of how transportation will work in the region over a 20 year time frame and supports coordination among jurisdictions.

Thurston Regional Trails Plan
The Regional Trails Plan offers a vision for a region-wide trail network that connects people with places not just within Thurston County, but also looks beyond its borders for potential connections with neighboring counties.  The plan is foremost a trail systems blueprint.  It illustrates through maps and user-friendly narratives how multiple trails can connect.

Regional Coordinated Public Transit and Human Services Transportation Plan
An update of the 2002 Area-Wide Job Access and Reverse Commute Transportation Plan for Thurston County.

Thurston Region Commute Trip Reduction Plan
The Regional CTR Plan addresses the region’s transportation and land use context, sets regional goals, describes how to measure progress, develops strategies to meet the goals, and presents a sustainable financial plan. 

Intelligent Transportation Systems Architecture Policy
ITS stands for Intelligent Transportation Systems, the advanced technology used to make transportation safer and more efficient.