CCAI brings states together to improve safety, mobility, freight movement, and emergency response through interoperable digital infrastructure and coordinated corridor operations.
The Connected Corridor Advancement Initiative (CCAI) is a state-led collaboration designed to deploy a national, federated digital infrastructure for major interstate highways. Its primary mission is to ensure that highway operations—such as traffic management and traveler alerts—work consistently across state lines.
The mission of CCAI is to enable consistent operational performance across interstate corridors that span multiple state jurisdictions. Consistency in this context does not require identical technologies, policies, or operational structures within each state.
Instead, it refers to the ability of participating states to coordinate corridor operations in ways that produce predictable outcomes for travelers, freight operators, and emergency responders, regardless of state boundaries, keeping safety as the most important priority.
Consistent operations are achieved through improved information sharing, coordinated operational practices, and interoperable digital systems that allow transportation agencies to detect conditions, communicate disruptions, and manage corridor events across jurisdictions. CCAI advances this mission by supporting collaborative deployment of digital capabilities and coordinated operational practices that improve corridor safety, travel time reliability, and freight performance across the interstate system.
In 2026, the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding. Transportation and transportation corridors have been at the center of what has become our national heritage. The Connected Corridor Advancement Initiative (CCAI) looks to continue the legacy of transportation as the integral part of our growing heritage by deploying, at national-scale, a collection of public and private technology assets and systems that quickly, securely, and resiliently exchange or use data and information to improve the transportation system for travelers, businesses, and agencies. We call this collection of assets and systems Roadway Digital Infrastructure (RDI).
The vision emphasizes four characteristics.
CCAI has set mission, vision, and goals to achieve for the initial five-year investment period. These items will be supported by annual work plans that include objectives and actions.
RDI focuses on the deployment of interoperable technology that supports coordinated corridor operations across state boundaries. RDI includes the physical, digital, and communications assets that generate, exchange, process, and use transportation data to support operations across interstate corridors.
Goal 2 focuses on the same activity the industry has been pursuing for some time, advancement in TSMO capability. While digital infrastructure enables information exchange, corridor performance ultimately depends on how agencies use that information to manage incidents, communicate disruptions, and coordinate operational decisions.
The Governance goal focuses on establishing the coordination structures and shared frameworks necessary to sustain interoperability and coordinated operations across participating states and partners. Governance under CCAI focuses on practical coordination rather than centralized control.
