The Midland Odessa Transportation Alliance (MOTRAN)’s mission is to foster, promote, maintain, and encourage the civic, social, commercial, and industrial welfare of the Midland/Odessa metropolitan area and West Texas. Efforts focus on advocating for improved infrastructure, including to develop and improve major transportation corridors to better connect the Permian Basin to other markets. The alliance works to connect Midland, Odessa and the Permian Basin to the rest of the state’s population and economic centers by advocating for strong regional transportation transmission networks, and MOTRAN collaborates with various stakeholders, including state and local entities, to advance the planning and implementation of roadway, pipeline, and utility projects that serve the region’s needs.
Originally, our communities came together to collaborate for a proposed extension of I-27. While that effort did not occur at that time, the cooperative efforts continued through the formation of the organization to work collaboratively on other projects.
Since then, we have worked to achieve billions in additional infrastructure funding, the designation of an international trade corridor that serves as a key energy corridor, as well as, the expansion of Interstate 20, along with designations for both I-14 and I-27 in the Midland-Odessa area, as well as, an additional interstate along the US 385 corridor south of Odessa to provide a direct connection between I-10 and I-20.