Washington-area officials plan to spend two-thirds of future transportation dollars on improving the region’s public transit systems, despite estimates that public transit accounts for less than 10 percent of area travel.

Roughly $141.8 billion in future transportation spending — or about 64 percent of currently identified maintenance, operation, improvement or expansion funds — is slated to go to public transit projects, according to the area transportation spending plan, which spans the next 30 years, released by the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, an organization comprising dozens of local, state and federal transportation officials and elected leaders.

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