Florida Transportation: The Statewide Travel Guides

The Florida transportation section holds two statewide guides: one on the Florida highway system and one on Florida rail and transit, and this hub answers the common questions both guides share.

The Florida highway system guide covers how many miles of road the state has, who owns and maintains them, how FDOT's seven districts divide Florida, the length of each Interstate, how Florida's Turnpike and SunPass work, and what the Strategic Intermodal System is. The Florida rail and transit guide covers SunRail fares and stations, the Tri-Rail line in South Florida, Brightline, Miami-Dade Metrorail and Metromover, the local bus agency in each region and who plans rail in Florida.

Below, each question gets a short answer from the Florida Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration or the operator that runs the service, followed by the guide that goes deeper. Airports and seaports have no separate guide yet, so their answer sits on this hub.

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the websites of the Florida Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, Florida's Turnpike, SunRail, Tri-Rail and Brightline.

Florida had 124,581 miles of public road in 2024, by FHWA's count, and the Florida Department of Transportation runs the State Highway System through seven districts and Florida's Turnpike Enterprise.

FHWA's Highway Statistics 2024 table on public road length lists Florida at 124,581 miles (FHWA Table HM-10). The same table puts 5,500 rural and 6,773 urban miles under the state highway agency. FDOT reports the State Highway System by district in lane miles.

FDOT describes itself as an executive agency that reports directly to the Governor, with its central office at 605 Suwannee St. in Tallahassee, phone (850) 414-4100 (About FDOT). The department is decentralized in accordance with legislative mandates: each district has its own District Secretary and its own Public Information Office (FDOT districts).

FHWA's route log gives the Florida lengths of four Interstates as 470.74 miles for I-75, 381.93 miles for I-95, 362.02 miles for I-10 and 131.89 miles for I-4 (FHWA Interstate route log). The Florida highway system guide lists every Interstate, how FDOT's districts divide the state and which highway numbers are current.

Florida's Turnpike is a toll road whose Mainline runs 312 miles through 11 counties from the Golden Glades interchange north of Miami to Wildwood, and SunPass, Florida's prepaid toll program, is the preferred way to pay.

Florida's Turnpike answers in its own FAQ that the Mainline is also State Road 91, the Turnpike Extension (State Road 821) is 47 miles long and ends near Homestead, and the original 110-mile stretch was completed in 1957 (Turnpike FAQ). The wider Turnpike System also includes the Sawgrass Expressway, the Seminole Expressway, the Beachline Expressway, the Veterans Expressway, the Polk Parkway, the Western Beltway, the I-4 Connector and the First Coast Expressway, among others. There are eight service plazas on the Mainline, about every 45 miles, open 24 hours a day in the center median.

FDOT's district page says the Turnpike Enterprise is a system of user-financed toll facilities totaling 515 centerline miles and generating over $1.3 billion in annual revenues (FDOT districts). It operates SunPass, and FDOT says the SunPass Pro transponder works across 23 states. The Enterprise processes more than 2.5 billion customer transactions annually.

Two practical points from the Turnpike's own answers: a driver without SunPass at a plaza where cash is not collected receives an invoice for the toll, and anyone who needs help on the road can call *347 to reach the Florida Highway Patrol, which can send a Road Rangers patrol free of charge. When tolls are suspended for a hurricane evacuation, the Turnpike advises keeping cash on hand, because a suspension on one segment does not mean tolls are off on every road or bridge.

The Florida highway system guide covers Turnpike tolls and SunPass in more depth.

Passenger trains inside Florida include SunRail commuter rail around Orlando, Tri-Rail in South Florida and Brightline between Miami and Orlando.

SunRail operates over 61 miles with 17 stations through Volusia, Seminole, Orange and Osceola counties (SunRail). Its first 32-mile phase opened May 1, 2014; the southern expansion to Poinciana opened July 30, 2018; and the northern expansion opened August 12, 2024, adding 12.2 miles from DeBary to a new DeLand station. Fares follow county zones: $2.00 one way inside one county and $1.00 more for each added county, so a four-county one-way trip is $5.00 (SunRail fares). Youth 7 to 18, seniors 65 and older and riders with disabilities pay half, and children 6 and under ride free with one paid accompanying adult.

Tri-Rail is run by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, which works in partnership with Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties (Tri-Rail). Its station list runs from Mangonia Park and West Palm Beach in the north through Fort Lauderdale Airport and Hollywood to Miami Airport and MiamiCentral; the line's information number is 1-800-TRI-RAIL.

Brightline describes its service as train travel between Miami and Orlando with stops in Aventura, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach (Brightline). FDOT's Freight and Rail Office develops the Florida Rail System Plan for both passenger and freight rail (FDOT Freight and Rail Office). The Florida rail and transit guide covers Metrorail and Metromover in Miami-Dade and who plans rail in Florida.

Local transit in Florida is run by the urban transit agencies on FDOT's list, and FDOT's Public Transit Office supports them with technical help.

FDOT's list of Florida's urban transit agencies has more than 30 entries, each with the city where the agency is based (FDOT urban transit agencies). A few examples from that list, with the city FDOT gives for each:

The same FDOT list includes two rail operators, the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (Tri-Rail) in Pompano Beach and SunRail in Sanford. The Florida rail and transit guide maps which agency serves each part of the state.

FDOT plans for airports and seaports alongside roads through its Aviation Office and Seaport Office, and its Strategic Intermodal System, set up in 2003, is the state's highest priority for transportation capacity investments.

The Governor and Legislature established the SIS in 2003 to focus limited transportation money on the facilities most significant for interregional, interstate and international travel, and FDOT calls it the state's highest priority for transportation capacity investments (FDOT SIS).

FDOT's Aviation Office develops the Florida Aviation System Plan and regulates airports. It notes that Florida is the only state with four large hub commercial airports and that the first paid commercial flight in the world was from St. Petersburg to Tampa (FDOT Aviation Office). Its May 2023 economic impact study found that public-use airports and military aviation facilities contribute over $336 billion to Florida's economy.

FDOT's Seaport Office coordinates infrastructure projects with Florida's 16 publicly owned seaports (FDOT Seaport Office). It describes Port Canaveral, about 50 miles southeast of Orlando, as the busiest cruise port in the world, and says JAXPORT supports 132,000 jobs and nearly $27 billion in annual economic impact for northeast Florida.

A note on stale official pages: on October 15, 2026, several FDOT pages still carried a banner about recovery from Hurricane Isaias, and the About FDOT page linked an annual report for FY 2021-2022, so check the FL511 traveler site and each operator's own page for current conditions before a trip.