SOVRA Long-Range Planning
Long-Range Transportation Planning, Unified Across Every Agency
Build the Plan That Outlasts the Budget-Cycle
Managing a long-range, multi-year program across agencies often means data silos and manual bottlenecks — disconnected workflows, scattered stakeholders, and no single, secure home for the plan. SOVRA’s Long-Range Planning module replaces that with one connected system, bringing LRTP/MTP intake, review, cross-agency coordination, GIS, documentation, and reporting together for MPOs and their stakeholders. The result: agencies stay aligned, LRTP/MTP development moves faster, and transparency improves at every stage.
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50%
Less Duplicate Data Entry
90%
Less Time on Public Inquiries
65%
Less Time Creating Reports
30%
Less Time on Financial Constraints
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Unify Stakeholders
Bring Every Agency Into One Transparent System
Agencies participating in a long-range plan often work from their own spreadsheets and email threads, with no shared view of what’s happening across the region. SOVRA Long-Range Planning gives every agency a single, secure home for LRTP/MTP data, with permissions that control exactly what each person can see and edit. Everyone works from the same source of truth, without compromising security or access.
- Secure Agency Portal: Give every agency a cloud-based home for LRTP/MTP data
- SOC 2 and ADA Compliance: Meet public sector security and accessibility standards out of the box
- Role-Based Permissions: Control exactly what each user can see and edit
Coordination
Reviews in the Right Order, Every Time
Coordinating a long-range plan across agencies often means chasing sign-offs over email and hoping nobody edits a plan out of turn. The Long-Range Planning solution lets you build the intake and review workflow your MPO actually follows, and lock revisions to the windows you define. Every agency knows what’s expected of them and when, and reviews happen in the right order every time.
- Configurable Workflows: Build intake and review steps around your MPO’s process
- Revision Control: Lock or reopen editing windows to keep reviews on schedule
- Public Review Periods: Turn on public comment windows whenever needed
Intake & Review
Take Projects from Intake to Approval
Getting a project from an agency’s initial idea into the LRTP or MTP often means retyping the same information into multiple systems and manually tracking who changed what. SOVRA Long-Range lets agencies submit directly into the LRTP/MTP workflow, then carries every project through evaluation to inclusion without re-entry. Nothing gets lost in translation, and everyone can see exactly how a project has evolved.
• Direct Project Submission: Submit projects straight into LRTP/MTP workflows — no re-entry required
- Inline Edit Highlights: See exactly what changed with visual summaries of every edit
- Automated Update Alerts: Get notified the moment a project is updated
- End-to-End Workflow: Move projects seamlessly from intake through evaluation to inclusion
Data Accuracy
Fewer Corrections, Faster Reviews
Incomplete or inconsistent submissions usually surface only after a project is already deep into review, forcing staff to circle back and track down missing information. SOVRA Long-Range Planning checks every entry as it’s made, flagging errors and missing fields before they become a problem. Your team spends less time correcting data and more time evaluating projects.
- Spell Check and Required Fields: Catch errors and missing entries before submission
- Automatic Flagging: Surface invalid or missing data the moment it appears
- Continuous Validation: Keep data accurate as users work, not just at submission
Change Tracking
Rest Easy with Every Edit Accounted For
Without a clear history, it’s difficult to know when or why a project changed — and even harder to defend those changes to the public or federal reviewers. The Long-Range Planning solution keeps a complete, timestamped history of every project, with side-by-side comparisons between any two versions. You always know who changed what and when, and can answer any question about a project’s history in seconds.
- Complete Project History: Maintain a full record of every project from start to finish
- Side-by-Side Comparison: Compare past and current versions at a glance
- User-Level Timestamps: Track every update to the person and moment it happened
Integrated GIS
Eliminate Screen-Toggling, Stay in the System
Project data and location data often live in separate systems, forcing staff to jump between platforms just to understand where a project sits and what it affects. SOVRA Long-Range Planning brings GIS directly into the platform, with shapefile support and a direct connection to your existing ESRI environment. Your team can see projects on the map right alongside their data, without leaving the system.
- Shapefile Upload and Export: Move geographic data in and out of the platform directly
- ESRI Integration: Connect Plan-to-Program to your existing GIS environment
- Flexible Filtering: Filter projects by location, priority, or funding source
Records Management
Organize, Report, and Engage the Public
Project documents tend to scatter across shared drives, email attachments, and individual desktops, making it hard to find the one file you need when you need it. SOVRA Long-Range Planning solution stores every project document in one centralized repository, tagged for fast retrieval. Anyone on the team can find the right file in seconds, instead of digging through folders.
- Centralized Repository: Store every project document in one central location
- Smart Tagging: Retrieve files quickly, however you search for them
- One-Stop Access: Keep approvals and documentation together in a single place
Reporting
Skip the Formatting, Keep the Insight and Get Strategic
Building long-range planning reports usually means pulling data from multiple systems and formatting it by hand, cycle after cycle. SOVRA Long-Range Planning generates reports from pre-built LRTP templates and exports them in the format you need, with options to connect to your own analytics tools. What used to take days of manual work now takes minutes.
- Pre-Built Templates: Generate long-range planning reports without building them from scratch
- Configurable Exports: Export data in CSV or PDF, formatted the way you need it
- Advanced Analytics Access: Connect to your own tools through API or Data Warehouse options
Public Engagement
Fewer Calls. More Clarity
Fielding public questions about the long-range plan often means manually pulling data and answering the same questions over and over. SOVRA Long-Range Planning publishes a public-facing site with maps, filters, and summaries, plus built-in tools for public comment during review periods. Residents can find answers themselves, cutting down on inbound questions to your team.
- Public-Facing Website: Publish a clean, user-friendly site for residents to explore
- Interactive Maps and Filters: Let the public browse projects, summaries, and locations
- Built-In Public Comment: Collect public feedback directly during review periods
Trusted Across the Country
29
States
480B+
Funding Managed
30,000+
Projects Managed
What Our Clients Say
“”There’s no question the value of this software for what we have to do. From our standpoint, it’s not only a monetary savings but a headache savings by choosing to go with [SOVRA].”
Kama Dobbs, Senior Capital Programmer at Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
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