The Puget Sound Regional Council's 2018 Regional Transportation Plan outlines strategies to manage the central Puget Sound region's rapid growth, which has added over 375,000 residents and 330,000 jobs since 2010. The plan details investments in highway, transit, rail, ferry, bicycle, and pedestrian systems to reduce traffic congestion and better connect housing with employment centers and freight hubs by 2040. Note: This document focuses on regional transportation planning broadly and does not specifically address Sea-Tac Airport noise policy.

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Executive summary of the 2018 Regional Transportation Plan for the central Puget Sound region by the Puget Sound Regional Council. The plan outlines unprecedented investments to improve highway, transit, rail, ferry, bicycle and pedestrian systems to support growth and reduce traffic congestion through 2040.

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As the source for federal transportation grants, the Puget Sound Regional Council was charged with developing a system to meet the growing need for commercial aviation. When the search for a second airport failed, they authorized the Port of Seattle to build the Third Runway, with a mandate to develop a noise abatement and mitigation program. In their effort to stop the Third Runway, the ACC argued over every detail of the Port's efforts--including property buyouts and sound insulation. The dispute was meant to be settled by a three member Expert Arbitration Panel. This is their final report. It finds 2-1, that the Port's program was insufficient in several respects. Despite that, funding for the Third Runway was approved by the PSRC, and the 'Port Package' program, proceeded largely unchanged. Expert Arbitration Panel's final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port's noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope.

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