Mobility Investment Priorities Project: 3P Texas Style: Emerging Innovations for Mobility and Traffic Operations

For the first time in over 100 years of construction of Texas’ highway system, three unique private–public–partnership (3P) project delivery models (concession, design-build, and design-build-operate) are being employed by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and its regional partners for strategic metropolitan mobility projects in the Dallas–Fort Worth region. The decision of the regional partners to use the new delivery models and leverage the value of projects’ mobility assets has advanced construction of much-needed mobility improvements by decades over traditional capabilities. In addition to advancing construction, each project in various stages of completion is providing urban area stakeholders with unique experiences related to major highway reconstruction, as well as an opportunity to improve future projects. This Mobility Investment Priorities (MIP) report focuses on capturing innovations (practices, methods, techniques, and technology not typical to TxDOT projects) in mobility (reliable movement of traffic through construction limits) and traffic operations that have significant value for Texas’ future metropolitan mobility projects.