Milos Majstorovic, Director of Transportation and Mobility, Fort Lauderdale

May 2026 — Milos Majstorovic, director of transportation and mobility for the City of Fort Lauderdale, spoke with Invest: about how the city is responding to growth with a more multimodal, coordinated transportation strategy. “When we speak about mobility, we really have to think about a comprehensive, multimodal approach that really expands transportation choices and enhances the efficiency, the safety, and accessibility of our entire transportation network,” Majstorovic said.

What are the main transportation and mobility priorities for Fort Lauderdale today?

We continue to experience growth in both population and transportation demand, and because Fort Lauderdale is a fully built city, adding roadway capacity in the traditional way is no longer always feasible. That means mobility increasingly depends on mode shift, transportation demand management, and traffic management.

When we speak about mobility, we really have to think about a comprehensive, multimodal approach that really expands transportation choices and enhances the efficiency, the safety, and accessibility of our entire transportation network. That includes walking, biking, automobiles, and transit. Each of those modes plays an important role in creating a transportation system that is functional, resilient, and capable of serving a city like ours over the long term.

How does the city manage mobility in a network with multiple agencies and jurisdictions involved?

That is one of the defining realities of transportation in Fort Lauderdale. Our roadway network is owned and managed by different agencies, including the city, Broward County, and the Florida Department of Transportation. Each has its own priorities, funding cycles, operational protocols, and short-, mid-, and long-term objectives.

That structure introduces challenges because coordination can be complex, and differences in timelines or approaches can lead to delays or make corridor-wide solutions more difficult to implement. It can also make real-time coordination more complicated during emergencies, incidents, special events, or even drawbridge malfunctions, which are a real consideration in a city like ours.

On October 23, 2025, the City Commission received a presentation from the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) on the Broward Regional Safety Action Plan, a countywide initiative funded by a $5 million U.S. Department of Transportation Safe Streets for All Grant program. The mission of the plan is to eliminate serious and fatal vehicle crashes across the county by focusing on data management, policy recommendations, and a prioritized list of capital improvement projects.

Concept plans illustrating the safety improvement projects were developed along three corridors within Fort Lauderdale: Sistrunk Boulevard, Broward Boulevard, and NW 31 Avenue. City Commission adopted a Resolution Endorsing the Broward Regional Comprehensive Safety Action Plan Priority Corridor Projects within the City of Fort Lauderdale to be amended into the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Route to 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan. 

That shared responsibility creates opportunities. It gives us a platform for collaboration, resource sharing, and strategic planning. When agencies align investments properly, the impact is greater, and it also positions us to pursue outside funding, including federal resources. The result is a more resilient, safer, and better-connected transportation network for the region.

What plans are guiding the city’s long-term mobility strategy?

The city’s mobility priorities go back to Fast Forward Fort Lauderdale 2035, which established the long-range vision of creating a connected community where people can move seamlessly through a safe transportation system, with pedestrians first. Since then, the city also developed Press Play Fort Lauderdale, which identifies shorter-term goals that help move the city toward that broader vision.

A major focus within those plans is building a multimodal and pedestrian-friendly community. One of the most important recent efforts is the Sidewalk Master Plan, the first citywide effort of its kind in Fort Lauderdale. It identifies sidewalk gaps and creates a prioritized implementation strategy for installing new sidewalks, guided by pedestrian safety, connectivity, and multimodal access.

We identified that the city has more than 500 miles of existing sidewalks, but also more than 100 miles of missing sidewalk segments. Closing that gap will be one of the major priorities moving forward.

How does Fort Lauderdale work with regional partners to improve mobility?

Our progress at the local level depends heavily on collaboration with partners such as Broward County, the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization, and the Florida Department of Transportation. Those relationships are essential to our ability to leverage both local and federal resources.

For example, Broward County is responsible for the installation, operation, and maintenance of traffic signals. We work closely with county colleagues to ensure signals are operating efficiently and that corridors are being upgraded with newer technology. Broward County has continued to implement adaptive traffic signal technology on some of our busiest corridors, using real-time data to adjust green-light timing based on actual conditions.

That technology helps reduce delays, improve travel times, and better manage congestion during peak periods. We meet with county staff on a biweekly basis to communicate challenges and coordinate improvements, and that kind of regular coordination is critical.

What role does transit play in the city’s broader strategy?

Transit is a key part of our approach, and it operates at both the regional and local levels. Regionally, Broward County Transit manages the larger network, and two county efforts are especially important.

The first is the Premium Mobility Plan, adopted in June 2023, which outlines a long-term investment strategy for a high-capacity transit network that includes rail, bus rapid transit, and high-frequency bus routes. The second is the Comprehensive Operational Analysis, which is evaluating the effectiveness of existing routes and helping shape what the future Broward County Transit system should look like. We have been engaged in both efforts as a major stakeholder.

At the local level, we are also enhancing city-operated services to complement the regional system.

How has the city’s local transit offering evolved in recent years?

One of the most significant improvements has been the expansion of our on-demand microtransit service. In late 2023, we launched a permanent microtransit service in the downtown and barrier island areas, with up to 20 vehicles in service. That expansion included longer service hours to cover morning and evening commute periods and gave residents and visitors more flexibility.

Today, that service carries about 23,000 passengers a month. It was initially funded through the city’s general fund, but it is now funded through Broward County’s Transportation Surtax Program.

We have continued to expand it. In February 2025, we extended microtransit service to the Northwest Community, an area we considered a transit desert because historically there had not been a local transit service there. Ridership in that zone grew from fewer than 200 passengers per month at the beginning to about 2,700 passengers per month by February 2026.

That expansion is fully funded through FDOT’s Transit Service Development Program for the first three years. We also operate a community shuttle program, which carries roughly 18,000 passengers a month and is funded through the Broward County Transit surtax. Beyond operating these services, we are always looking for ways to improve frequency, reliability, and service span.

What mobility projects will be especially important over the next three to five years?

The Sidewalk Master Plan will be one of the most important. Another major effort is Las Olas Mobility. Las Olas is one of the city’s iconic corridors, connecting Andrews Avenue to A1A and the beach, and the City Commission has recognized the need to improve mobility, safety, and the streetscape along that corridor.

In February, the commission directed us to move forward with design for the western portion of the corridor, from Andrews Avenue to Southeast 17th Avenue. The improvements we are advancing include wider sidewalks, raised intersections and midblock crossings, traffic-calming elements, pedestrian-scale lighting, and a significant increase in tree canopy coverage.

That canopy component is especially important in South Florida. If we want more people to walk and spend time outdoors, we have to make those spaces comfortable as well as safe.

How is the city responding to congestion around the port and convention center?

That has become an increasingly important issue. Over the last several years, activity at Port Everglades and the Broward County Convention Center has grown significantly, and with the expansion of the convention center and the opening of the Omni hotel, transportation demand in that area has increased.

In response, we convened a Traffic Management Task Force made up of representatives from multiple agencies, including Broward County, FDOT, the Sheriff’s Office, our police department, and city staff. The goal is to improve communication, traffic flow, and parking management through short-, mid-, and long-term measures.

Some of those efforts involve increased police presence, improved signage and markings, and looking at road and parking capacity. A major priority is making sure we understand what is happening on the network in real time, recognize issues in advance, and communicate clearly with the public so travelers can make better decisions.

How is the city thinking about parking and curb management?

Like many cities, we are rethinking parking and curb management to better support multimodal access, deliveries, transit operations, and services such as Uber and Lyft. Right-of-way is a limited resource, so it has to balance safety, movement, efficiency, commerce, and community needs.

We plan to bring in a parking consultant to evaluate our current practices, compare them with best-in-class approaches, and provide recommendations on how we can improve curb management moving forward.

How do these mobility investments support Fort Lauderdale’s broader economic competitiveness?

Transportation operates in an environment with significant competing priorities, both externally and internally. Public works, police, fire, and transportation all provide essential services, and all compete for limited fiscal resources. That is why we have to be strategic in how we position transportation projects within the larger citywide and regional framework.

We rely heavily on master plans, commission priorities, and data-driven decision-making to determine where limited resources will have the greatest impact. Through investments in sidewalks, Las Olas, transit, and traffic operations, we want to create facilities and projects that people are proud of and that continue to attract visitors to our city so that we can continue providing essential program services to our city and continue to be the best in what we do.