Travel Alert | Winter Storm Warnings - Stay updated at cotrip.org

The National Weather Service has issued Winter Storm Warnings and Watches for most mountain areas. A slow moving spring storm will bring heavy, wet snow above 7,500ft of elevation to all mountain ranges through Wednesday (5/7). Snow showers will start Monday (5/5) across the central mountains, including I-70 corridor, and the southwestern passes with the heaviest accumulations expected Tuesday (5/6). Lower elevations, including Denver and the Front Range should expect significant rain through the duration.  

  • State Law stipulates commercial vehicles must carry chains or approved alternate traction devices on most mountain roadways until May 31. Chain Laws are likely to be in place during this storm. 
  • Heavy rains may create standing water issues and localized flooding 
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National Highway Freight Program

National Highway Freight Program Funding

The federally-funded National Highway Freight Program (NHFP) is a formula-based funding program that supports investments in the National Highway Freight Network (NHFN) across the U.S. Projects funded through the NHFP contribute to efficient goods movement on the NHFN. 

Priority Alignment

CDOT is guided by the Colorado Freight Plan evidence, literature and studies and stakeholder input. Those critical pieces of information are combined to develop prioritization criteria to determine strategic NHFP investments. Projects focus on Colorado freight system investments, such as:

 

Improve Mobility & Efficiency of Goods Movement

 

Enhance Safety & Security for Commercial Carriers

 

Improve Sustainability & Reduce Environmental Impacts

 

Planning for a Healthy Transportation System

Funded Projects

Funded projects address critical urban, suburban and rural freight infrastructure improvements. Shared through the Freight Investment Plan, projects are distributed across Colorado to ensure the investment maintains a statewide reach. 

In additional to a statewide reach, the funds strategically target two goals:

1. Improving Mobility & Sustainability

Three of the top 100 most heavily congested highway freight bottlenecks in the country are along highways in the Denver area. The Colorado Motor Carriers, the Colorado Advanced Manufacturing Alliance, the Colorado Office of Economic Development as well as private businesses and public stakeholders acknowledge that congestion and physical constraints placed on goods movement both increase costs for businesses and consumers, and increase unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions.

CDOT is currently working partners and mobility data sources to identify congested pinch points and bottlenecks in highway, intermodal, and rail systems that hinder goods movement. High frequency bottleneck locations, or the identified top capacity constraint locations, will be prioritized for potential projects. Mobility data includes truck volumes, network criticality, costs and potential benefits and other performance measures. 

2. Enhancing Safety

CDOT is currently assessing statewide crash data to identify patterns and specific commercial vehicle hotspot locations. This data driven analysis results in the identification of specific project opportunities to make commercial vehicle travel safer.

Potential NHFP projects are assessed based on safety-related performance measures, including overall truck volume, crash severity, crash hotspot recurrence, and other project level measures.

 

Critical Rural and Urban Freight Corridors