Blueprint for Affordable Mobility.
Evaluating and improving transportation's impact on affordability across Virginia.
Transportation affects where people live, where they work, how much they spend, and what opportunities they can access. This initiative explores how Virginia can use data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and cross-agency collaboration to evaluate and improve the Commonwealth's transportation model in support of a more affordable Virginia.
Traditional measures miss the daily affordability burden.
Virginia's transportation model influences household affordability, workforce participation, economic opportunity, community development, and quality of life.
Traditional transportation planning often focuses on congestion, travel time, infrastructure condition, and capital investment. These measures are important — but they do not fully capture how transportation choices affect the daily affordability burden on citizens.
Connect transportation with housing, jobs, and demographics.
By connecting transportation data with housing, workforce, economic development, and demographic data, Virginia can better understand which transportation investments produce the greatest affordability impact.
How can Virginia improve affordability by improving its transportation model?
A data-driven framework for transportation-led affordability.
A framework to evaluate transportation's impact on affordability, identify gaps in mobility access, benchmark communities, and support better policy and investment decisions across Virginia.
Transportation is the lever.
Housing, workforce, economic opportunity, healthcare, education, and quality of life are secondary outcomes shaped by how Virginians can move.
Housing
Where families can afford to live in relation to where they work.
Workforce
Whether residents can reach jobs and training opportunities.
Economic Development
Regional competitiveness shaped by mobility access.
Healthcare Access
Reaching providers, specialists, and emergency care.
Education Access
Connecting students and families to learning options.
Quality of Life
Time, cost, and stress of daily travel for every household.
Purpose-built for evaluating Virginia's transportation model.
- 01Transportation Affordability Assessment
- 02Mobility Burden Analysis
- 03Job Accessibility Mapping
- 04Transit Access Evaluation
- 05Housing + Transportation Cost Analysis
- 06Regional Transportation Benchmarking
- 07AI-Assisted Scenario Modeling
- 08Executive Dashboards
- 09Data Governance Recommendations
- 10Public-Sector Roundtables & Advisory Sessions
Beyond the Numbers: Building a More Affordable Virginia.
This initiative is inspired by the Virginia Datathon 2026 theme, which focuses on evaluating and improving the Commonwealth's transportation model.