The Draft CTP is informed by roughly 6,000 in-person and digital touchpoints conducted in five languages, across more than 47 community meetings, events, focus groups, listening sessions, and community leader interviews. This engagement examined Alameda County's transportation needs in greater detail and identified ways for Alameda CTC to help address them. Over the past year, the CTP team also integrated findings from the Paratransit Needs Assessment (PNA) and the Countywide Active Transportation Plan (CATP), which added depth on specific populations and modes as part of the CTP planning process.

To learn more about Summer-Fall 2025 engagement for the 2026 CTP see our Community Engagement Summary Report. For more information on the PNA and CATP please see the Plan Resources tab.

Building Partnerships

During the earliest stages of plan development, the CTP team reached out to over 500 Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and met with approximately 40 to shape the plan’s foundational elements and engagement approach. To deepen those relationships the team created the CTP Working Group to directly advise on engagement and plan elements.

Based on interest and availability, ten organizations participated in the CTP Working Group over the past two years. CBO representatives were compensated for their time and met four times to provide feedback on reaching diverse audiences, making outreach materials more accessible, and partnering at events to get the word out about the CTP. Organizations that participated in the CTP Working Group include:

The Policy Blueprint is the foundation of the 2026 CTP

The Commission adopted the CTP Policy Blueprint in October 2024. The Blueprint grounds this plan update in policy and represents first milestone in plan development. The Blueprint will inform all aspects of CTP development and set the four plan goals: safety, equity, climate, and economic vitality.

The Blueprint grounds this plan update in policy and represents first milestone in plan development. The Blueprint will inform all aspects of CTP development and set the four plan goals: safety, equity, climate, and economic vitality.

CTP Vision and Goals

“Alameda County residents, businesses, and visitors will be served by a premier transportation system that supports a vibrant and livable Alameda County through a connected and integrated multimodal transportation system promoting safety, equity, sustainability, access, transit operations, public health, and economic opportunities.”

The four goals for the 2026 CTP together advance the transportation vision:

• Safety: Reduce fatalities and severe injuries of all users towards zero by deterring unsafe speeds, prioritizing vulnerable users, and implementing the Safe System Approach.
• Equity: Advance deliberate policies, systems, and actions to deliver a transportation system that removes barriers and transportation-related inequities and results in more equitable opportunities, access, and positive outcomes for marginalized communities.
• Climate: Create safe multimodal facilities to walk, bike and access public transportation to promote healthy outcomes and support strategies that reduce reliance on single-occupant vehicles and minimize impacts of pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.
• Economic Vitality: Support a resilient Alameda County economy and vibrant local communities through a transportation system that is affordable, clean, reliable, well-maintained, and integrated with land uses that support sustainable travel.

To read the policy objectives for each goal, see the Policy Blueprint.

The Policy Blueprint includes data-driven tools that advance the Commission’s priority on safety and that will guide recommendations in the Countywide Transportation Plan. The Blueprint’s policy objectives and safety analysis aim to identify locations with the highest safety need. This analysis includes the development of two networks: a High-Injury Network (HIN) that identifies corridors with a history of the most fatal and severe collisions, and a Proactive Safety Network (PSN) that proactively identifies locations with expected safety needs given current conditions.

• HIN Update: The HIN is a tool for understanding which corridors have a history of the most fatal and serious injuries based on reported collision data. Alameda CTC developed its first HIN in 2019. The 2024 HIN includes collision data for the years 2018-2022 and will be used in tandem with the 2019 HIN to provide a comprehensive countywide HIN which identifies areas of potential safety concern over time.
• PSN Framework: The PSN identifies roadway locations where vulnerable users, such as students and people walking to access transit, may be most exposed to conditions that have been shown to contribute to fatal and serious injury collisions. This framework will help the CTP identify and prioritize areas for safety improvements in a proactive way, rather than reacting to collision data, which has a number of limitations.

You can read more about the HIN and PSN in the report here.