| Name | Size | Description |
| Highway to Highway Brochure | 5.6MB pdf | Details on the H2H project as envisioned in the Long-Range Transportation plan. |
| 2025 Anchorage Bowl Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) with 2027 Revisions |
63.9MB pdf | Most current planning document that outlines how we can improve our transportation system to make Anchorage a better place to live, work, and raise future generations of Alaskans. Many improvements are planned for in the LRTP including better maintainenance of roads, sidewalks, and trails; expand People Mover bus service; invest in bike and pedestrian improvements; and create an Express Bus Transit and High Occupancy Vehicle strategy for the Glenn Highway. At the center of this strategy, the plan envisions improving the connection between the Seward and Glenn highways. |
| 2025 Anchorage Bowl Long-Range Transportation Plan | 16.8MB pdf | |
| 2003 East Anchorage Study of Transportation | State and local officials commissioned the East Anchorage Study of Transportation (EAST) to find long-range solutions to travel mobility within and through East Anchorage. The purpose of EAST was to identify current problems, forecast future transportation demands and deficiencies, and analyze approaches to improve traffic safety and efficiency. | |
| 2001 Anchorage Bowl Long-Range Transportation Plan | 9.2MB pdf | The 2001 LRTP acknowledged that several issues remaining from the 1991 LRTP would be better addressed in a sub-area or corridor study. The studies called for in the 2001 LTRP included the East Anchorage Study of Transportation (EAST), along with the Glenn MIS and Seward MIS. The 2001 LRTP was approved by the AMATS Policy Committee on April 25, 2001. It was also adopted by the Anchorage Assembly on April 24, 2001, after a public hearing was held by the Planning & Zoning Commission. |
| 2001 Glenn Highway Major Investment Study | 20.2MB pdf | The Glenn Highway Major Investment Study (MIS) of 2001 studied existing conditions
along the Glenn Highway to identify potential improvements to the Glenn Highway
between Gambell and McCarrey Streets, with the goals of accommodating existing travel demand, alleviating congestion in the corridor, and planning for future growth. |
| 2001 New Seward Highway Major Investment Study | 9.5MB pdf | The New Seward Highway (NSH) Major Investment Study evaluated the New Seward Highway between Rabbit Creek and 36th and recommended highway improvements combined with strategies for transportation system and demand management. The MIS did not address the existing arterial extension of the highway into Downtown. |
| 1997 Anchorage Bowl Long-Range Transportation Plan | 6.6MB pdf | The 1997 LRTP was a minor update to the 1991 LRTP with very few changes. The 1997 LRTP was approved by the AMATS Policy Committee in 1999. |
| 1984 Long-Range Transportation Plan for the Anchorage Bowl | 25.3MB pdf | |
| 1982 AMATS Major Corridors Study | 32.1MB pdf | |
| 1981 Long-Range Element Update | 2.8MB pdf | |
| 1971 Recommended Transportation Plan | 5.6MB pdf | |
| 1963 Anchorage Freeway Study | 30.3MB pdf | In 1961, the Alaska Department of Highways (now the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, or DOT&PF) hired a consultant to study and prepare preliminary designs for a highway system in Anchorage. The resulting report, completed in 1963, was titled Anchorage Freeway Study and documented, even then, that Anchorage’s high traffic volumes and congestion issues would only increase as the city’s population grew. |
