Kansas's long range plan provides a vision and framework for the transportation system until 2030. It is guided by three primary principles: system preservation, safer travel, and economic growth. Dealing with the challenges caused by funding shortages and a need to transition to more adaptive decision-making, the long range plan concludes by outlining a series of system-wide recommendations. Most of these recommendations originate from stakeholder meetings conducted by Kansas DOT.

In August 2019, Kansas DOT released a memo briefly describing their plan to update their long range transportation plan and extend the horizon to 2045. Until the new plan is released, the most up-to-date plan is this one from 2008.