To meet the provisions of this Section, the Department shall publish and deliver to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2012 and every 5 years thereafter, its master plan for highway, waterway, aeronautic, mass transportation, and railroad systems. The plan shall identify priority subsystems or components of each system that are critical to the economic and general welfare of this State regardless of public jurisdictional responsibility or private ownership.
The master plan shall include a comprehensive and multimodal freight mobility plan which shall analyze commodity flows, assess the freight transportation network, and identify significant freight system trends, needs, and economic opportunities. It shall recommend improvements in the operation and management of the freight system, projects that will eliminate inefficiencies in the State's freight network, methods of funding needed for freight system improvements, and policies to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient movement of goods within and through the State and to ensure the State's economic vitality. The freight mobility plan shall incorporate and maintain compatibility with any federally required rail plan affecting this State.
The master plan shall provide particular emphasis and detail of at least the 5-year period in the immediate future.
Annual and 5-year, or longer, project programs for each State system in this Section shall be published and furnished the General Assembly on the first Wednesday in April of each year.
Identified needs included in the project programs shall be listed and mapped in a distinctive fashion to clearly identify the priority status of the projects: (1) projects to be committed for execution; (2) tentative projects that are dependent upon funding or other constraints; and (3) needed projects that are not programmed due to lack of funding or other constraints.
All projects shall be related to the priority systems of the master plan, and the priority criteria identified. Cost and estimated completion dates shall be included for work required to complete a useable segment or component beyond the period of the program.
20 ILCS 2705/2705-200