Transportation & Public Works

Transportation Management Division

The Transportation Management Division is responsible for maintenance activities and response to approximately 28,000 service requests annually for street lights, traffic signals, utility locates, traffic signs, pavement markings, parking, and school and neighborhood traffic safety concerns. All Transportation Management activities support the City’s Vision Zero Program, which aims to eliminate traffic related fatalities and serious injuries in the City. The Division also administers the following programs:

• Sidewalk Program
• Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program
• Safe Routes to School Program
• School Crossing Guard Program
• Street Name Change Program
• Parklet Program
• Parking Management - including Valet, Ground Transportation, Residential Permit Parking and Street Use Permitting (construction only)

Stormwater Management

The Stormwater Management Division is responsible for managing program resources to protect people and property from harmful stormwater runoff by: prioritizing and monitoring drainage system maintenance and rehabilitation programs, planning and programming construction of projects to mitigate flood and erosion hazards, warning the community of flood and erosion hazards that cannot be mitigated in the short-term, and developing and updating regulatory standards to mitigate the risk of private property development creating or aggravating flood risk.  This division also provides oversight for the City’s Open Space program.

CFW Flood Risk Viewer

Capital Delivery Division

The Capital Delivery Division is responsible for delivering over $315 million in capital improvement infrastructure. The Capital Delivery Division is responsible for the majority of horizontal capital projects encompassing street, storm water and traffic improvements – managing planning, design, construction and inspection. Capital projects include new infrastructure as well as rehabilitation of existing systems. The Division provides inspection services for citywide construction activities, material testing, and survey services.

Streets and Stormwater Operations

Streets and Stormwater Operations is responsible for street infrastructure and network maintenance, and stormwater conveyance system maintenance. The City’s street system includes over 8,100 lane miles of streets and over 400 bridges. The City’s Stormwater System includes over 1,000 miles of underground pipe, approximately 230 miles of engineered drainage channel, approximately 30,000 drainage inlets and numerous other drainage facilities such as detention basins and bar ditches. The Streets and Stormwater Operations Division also oversees right-of-way for the permitting and inspection of work by private entities within City right-of-way, coordination of the Department-wide asset management program, coordination of updates and improvements to design standards, and construction contracting processes for City infrastructure projects.

Regional Transportation and Innovation Division

The Regional Transportation and Innovation Division is the long-range planning and project development arm of the department. The Division is responsible for bringing a variety of activities together including regional coordination with the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) and other local government partners, state and federal agency partnerships, including Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Other activities include development of comprehensive multi-modal corridor and area project development, monitoring, updating and implementing the Master Thoroughfare Plan (MTP), and Active Transportation Plan, and staff liaison to the Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee.

Media Advisory

City of Fort Worth Transportation & Public Works launches red bus lane pilot

On Thursday, Sept. 28, the City of Fort Worth’s Transportation & Public Works (TPW) Department will be one of the first red bus lane pilots in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. District 9 Council member Elizabeth Beck will host a ribbon cutting to kick off the City’s implementation of red-painted bus lanes on Jones Street. Red bus lanes are used to increase lane visibility and decrease confusion for drivers. Fort Worth will become the fifth city in the U.S. with this safety enhancement.

Who: District 9 Council member Elizabeth Beck and City of Fort Worth TPW Assistant Director Kelly Porter

What: Inaugural Red Bus Lane Pilot launches in downtown Fort Worth

When: 9 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 28

Where: Fort Worth Central Station, 1001 Jones St., Fort Worth, Texas 76102

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Red Bus Lane Info Sheet(PDF, 574KB)