Transportation Planning

We plan for San José’s future transportation needs, ensuring all our projects all live up to our department’s priorities of Safety, Complete Streets, Quality Infrastructure, Innovation, and People.

• Complete Streets Design Guidelines (Final Draft): Provide guidance and best practices for developers and the City to build streets that safety accommodate walkers, bikers, and transit takers in addition to vehicle drivers.
• Multimodal Transportation Improvement Plans (West San José and East San José): These plans will add detail to several Urban Village Plans’ transportation priorities. They will result in prioritized lists of transportation improvements that can then be designed and built.
• Downtown Transportation Plan: Like the Multimodal Transportation Improvement Plans, the Downtown Transportation Plan will provide a prioritized list of projects.

Planning tools

• Our Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Evaluation Tool helps developers and planners understand the environmental impact of the vehicle trips generated by projects.
• Download the San José Transportation Analysis Handbook for guidance on preparation of transportation analysis reports for development projects, transportation projects, and General Plan amendments.

Policies

Our transportation planning is guided by policies that make sure we deliver quality projects, consistently.

Citywide Policy

• Public Streetlights Policy (4-2)
• Transportation Analysis Policy (5-1)
• Transportation Impact Policy (5-3)

Area-Specific Policy

• I-280 Winchester Boulevard Transportation Development Policy
• Communications Hill Specific Plan - Area Development Policy 
• Edenvale Area Development Policy
• Evergreen Area Development Policy
• North San José Area Development Policy
• North San José Deficiency Plan
• US-101 / Oakland / Mabury Area Development Policy