SANDAG and the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority are engaged in a two-pronged process to plan for improved infrastructure that will be needed to accommodate air traffic in the region, as well as surface transportation that will serve airport facilities.
Senate Bill 10 of 2007 (SB 10) requires airport multimodal planning to be conducted and coordinated by SANDAG and the Authority. The main planning provisions of SB 10 include the development of a Regional Aviation Strategic Plan (RASP) and an Airport Multimodal Accessibility Plan (AMAP).
The Authority is the lead for the RASP, which will identify workable strategies to improve the performance of the regional airport system. SANDAG is the lead for the AMAP, which will develop a multimodal strategy to improve surface transportation to airports.
The development of the RASP and AMAP will be a coordinated process between the Authority and SANDAG. The overall schedule is designed to allow the RASP and AMAP to be incorporated into the 2050 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). Projects and policies developed from the RASP, AMAP, Airport Master Plan (Destination Lindbergh), and the Regional Air-Rail Network Study, to the extent they are complete, will be included in the 2011 update of the RTP.
While the Authority is the lead for the aviation demand, capacity, and airport infrastructure components to be completed for the RASP, these studies will be incorporated into the AMAP – particularly the first phase of the AMAP, the Regional Air-Rail Network Study.
The RASP will identify the airport infrastructure needed to meet future aviation demand. The AMAP will identify surface transportation infrastructure needs associated with future airport expansion. Major findings in terms of aviation and surface transportation infrastructure and facilities will be developed in early FY 2010. Likewise, the major multimodal policies and strategies developed jointly through this process will be developed in 2010. | 
