Texas toll roads: the ownership lookup

Find a road, authority or concession

Search by the road name, route abbreviation, public authority or operator. Region and control filters combine with the search. Selecting a map region filters the same records; selecting a result opens its authority, billing, concession and source fields. Clear the filters to restore the full edition.

A public authority’s name identifies the responsible body in the official list. The separate public-title field is populated only where this edition has an explicit source for roadway title; a blank does not imply private land. The original ownership investigation explains the legal and financial layers in greater detail.

Read the segment before the ownership label

For SH 130, the northern and southern records intentionally share a road number and a billing service but differ in operator and concession structure. The southern company currently reports Strategic Value Partners as majority owner and the federal government as a minority shareholder. The restructuring case keeps its 2017 recovery figures separate from today’s reported ownership.

The SH 288 records separate Harris County from Brazoria County. The Harris County private agreement was terminated October 8, 2024. A record for the former private concession is not evidence that a private investor still owns those operating rights. Brazoria County’s authority states that its portion remained under county management. TxDOT termination record; BCTRA history.

NTTA and NTE are different entities. The database distinguishes public NTTA roads from private LBJ, NTE and NTE 35W concession companies, and from TxDOT-operated TEXpress lanes. All can use NTTA billing. For example, a search for “I-35E” should not return the private NTE 35W project as if the interstate suffixes were interchangeable.

What the downloadable fields mean

The stable record ID is the join key across CSV, JSON and GeoJSON. Road and segment fields name the facility boundary, rather than treating an entire numbered highway as one business. Authority, operator and billing agency are separate strings. Control type distinguishes public operation, private concession and a return to public control.

Public-title, private-business ownership and concession-end fields require their own evidence. Null means not separately established or not applicable, as explained by the record note; it never means zero ownership. Source IDs resolve to the source list in JSON and the data dictionary. The checked-on date describes the source review, not the date the road was built or the concession signed.

GeoJSON points are approximate regional context coordinates shared by records in the same region. They make the ownership directory mappable without inventing a road alignment. The Texas outline derives from the existing TxDOT state-boundary layer used in this site’s infrastructure atlas. None of these geometries certifies a deed, parcel or maintenance limit.

Coverage and refresh rules

This edition expands named roads in TxDOT’s statewide operator table across Dallas–Fort Worth, Central Texas, Greater Houston, East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley. It does not claim to enumerate every bridge, gantry, connector, exempt movement or future project. Facilities sharing a system can share a financing pledge; their records must not be added together as independent revenue enterprises.

Use the official operator and agency pages to check a changed bill or newly opened segment. Recheck the executed agreement and amendments when a concession is transferred or terminated. An operating contractor changing its name does not itself establish a sale of the public asset. Updates should preserve a prior record’s date and explain the changed field rather than silently making old facts current.

For the money behind these records, read NTTA debt and maintenance, HCTRA’s county transfers and the toll-road bond waterfall. The Texas business maps collection connects this lookup with the site’s other dated ownership research.