Northwest Alaska
Transportation Plan
Community Transportation Analysis
updated 9/19/2008

Plan adopted February 11, 2004

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The Community Transportation Analysis of the Northwest Alaska Transportation Plan was adopted on February 11, 2004. The plan provides a 20-year strategy for transportation infrastructure development in Northwest Alaska. It will guide the department's capital development plans for this area.

The plan reflects the broad range of concerns, views and perspectives of the people that live and travel in this region which covers the North Slope Borough, Northwest Arctic Borough, Norton Sound/Seward Peninsula, and the Middle Yukon River Basin, an area of approximately 217,865 square miles. The plan considers marine, river, aviation, trail and highway transportation, as well as other economic, demographic, and technological forces at work in this and adjoining areas of Alaska.

The plan addresses passenger and freight inter-community movements by land, air and water modes. In the accompanying Resource Transportation Analysis, the plan will address the transportation needs of mineral, coal, and oil/gas developments. The Northwest Alaska Transportation Plan constitutes an element of the Statewide Transportation Plan.

To request that a copy of the plan in print or on compact disk (CD) be mailed to you when it is available, please contact:

DOT/PF Division of Program Development
1-888-PLAN-DOT or 907-465-4070 (Juneau and out-of-state)
TDD: 907-465-3652

Public Comments

The following written comments were received by the department on the draft Northwest Alaska Transportation Plan. You can view each of them in Adobe Acrobat by clicking on the author's name below:

Project Contacts

If you have questions or comments regarding this transportation plan, please send an e-mail to:

Jeff Ottesen, Director

Eric Taylor , Statewide Plan Manager

Ethan Birkholz , Northern Region Planning Manager