CONNECTIVITY | TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTIVITY Major Transportation Highway Transportation Construction

construction | Infrastructure Projects Dallas-Fort Worth’s vast transportation projects DENTON TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE McKINNEY infrastructure connects residents and Transportation is essential to businesses. The freeway system provides east- Texas’ future. The movement ALLEN west and north-south corridors with easy access FRISCO of goods and people in an to job centers and residential communities. PLANO e icient manner ensures the Mass transit options, including the Dallas Area LEWISVILLE economy remains competitive WYLIE and economically prosperous. Rapid Transit (DART) system, the Fort Worth T, FLOWER MOUND North Texas continues to Trinity Railway Express (TRE), the Denton County CARROLTON GRAPEVINE RICHARDSON GARLAND experience tremendous Transit Authority’s (DCTA) A Train, and the newly ROWLETT launched intermodal TEXRail o er alternatives to population growth, which cars for getting around the region. places increased demand on BEDFORD EULESS IRVING The region’s robust interstate infrastructure Dallas the region’s transportation provides easy links along the USMCA corridor, infrastructure. Billions of Alliance Airport linking Mexico to Canada and to East and West Fort Worth dollars are being invested MESQUITE to maintain existing Coast destinations. This makes it an important GRAND ARLINGTON PRAIRIE intermodal center for the distribution of air, infrastructure, prevent rail, and truck freight. The nation’s two largest Commercial Airports congestion, and ensure railroads, Fort Worth–based Burlington Northern mobility and safety by Dallas Fort Worth Dallas Love Field Alliance Airport LANCASTER relieving chokepoints and Santa Fe and Union Paciic have major operation DESOTO International Airport (DAL) (AFW) CEDAR HILL expanding critical corridors. nodes in the region, o ering business-e icient MANSFIELD (DFW) Number of runways: 2 Number of runways: 2 access to other key ports and distribution Dozens of projects are Number of runways: 7 Lengths of runways (feet): Lengths of runways (feet): centers across the United States and into currently underway, with 7,752; 8,800 11,000; 11,010 Lengths of runways (feet): many more planned for the Mexico. 8,500; 9,000; 9,300; 2019 Total operations: 2019 Total operations: future. And DFW o ers many options for regional 11,400 (3); 13,400 231,879 127,332 and international air travel, including Dallas Fort 2019 Total operations: 2018 Total operations: 2018 Total operations: Worth International (the 4th busiest airport in the 720,007 231,110 119,090 world), the workhorse Dallas Love Field, and the 2018 Total operations: irst major industrial airport, Alliance. 667,213 Source: Air Tra ic Activity Data System (ATADS), Federal Aviation Administration

1 Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Construction Underway or begins soon 8 Construction begins within 4 years 5 2 Dallas Love Field CURRENT EXPRESS/HOV Airports & NEW MANAGED LANES 3 Fort Worth Alliance Airport Construction begins in 510 years Corridor Studies, construction in 10+ years Current express/ 4 Addison Airport HOV lanes

5 McKinney National Airport New TEXpress managed lanes 15 6 Dallas Executive Airport Transitional 7 Fort Worth Meacham International high-occupancy 3 vehicle lane 4 8 Denton Enterprise CurrentMajor Express/HOV roadways

9 9 Ralph M Hall/Rockwall Municipal HUNT & New Managed Lanes WISE COLLIN DENTON The DFW region has the most managed 16 10 NAS Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base open 2017 1 lanes of any metro in the U.S. The 11 Fort Worth Spinks 2 segment 3C area’s regional transportation planning open 2014 open 2015 12 Arlington Municipal Transportation of Department Texas Source: opening 2021 agency has created a program to use 7 HOT conversion managed lanes to ensure that critical 17 13 Lancaster Regional Airport open october 2016 10 14 transportation, such as buses, are able 14 Mesquite Metro segment 3B open 2018 fall 2017 ROCKWALL to maintain 5070 mph speeds in order open 2014

15 Northwest Regional PARKER to reliably arrive on-time. 6 Helicopters And Vertical Take-O segments 3A 12 open 2018 And Landing Aircraft Only: Current express/HOV lanes

segments 1 & 2W open august 2016 New TEXpress managed lanes 18 16 Garland/DFW Heloplex open 2014 KAUFMAN Transitional HOV lane 13 17 Dallas CBD Vertiport 11 TARRANT DALLAS Major roadways 18 Heliport DeSoto

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