Goals

Roles:

• Leaders for National Mobility
• Stewards for National Highway Programs
• Innovators for a Better Future

Vital Few:

• Safety
• Congestion Mitigation
• Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining

Strategic Goals:

• Safety
• Mobility and Productivity
• Environment
• National Security
• Organizational Excellence

 

The continuing challenge that we face is enhancing the movement of people and goods from one place to another, while also ensuring the safety of the traveling public, promoting the efficiency of the transportation system, and protecting the environment.

Roles: We will add value to the transportation community and ensure our Nation's prosperity by serving as innovators, leaders, and stewards.

As Innovators for a Better Future, we will:

• Invest in and conduct transportation research on behalf of partners and stakeholders;
• Create an environment for and deliver innovation in the transportation community
  through the development of tools, technology transfer, training, and technical assistance; and
• Continually reevaluate and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our business processes.

As Leaders for National Mobility, we will:

• Provide leadership in defining a future transportation system;
• Advocate highway system excellence;
• Lead the formulation of national program policy and content; and
• Develop perspective and expertise to support and measure system performance.

As Stewards for National Highway Programs, we will:

• Raise the bar on performance of the highway and transportation system;
• Ensure financial accountability;
• Anticipate and meet national security needs; and
• Deliver Federal-aid and Federal Lands Programs.
  

The Vital Few

Our Vital Few priorities are featured in this performance plan. Our performance in these areas will define success for our Agency and affirm the need for a Federal role in highway transportation.

• Safety
• Congestion Mitigation
• Environmental Stewardship & Streamlining

Achievement of the Vital Few priorities is what we want to be known for in the coming three to five years. During FY 2003, we will undertake a concerted effort with our partners to accelerate the implementation of specific actions in States and localities where major improvements in these priority areas are needed.

Strategic Goals

Five strategic goals - safety, mobility and productivity, environment, national security, and organizational excellence- are addressed in our performance plan. Our focus continues to be on achieving the anticipated national outcomes, as we have stated in previous years. There is an added emphasis on directly accounting for our progress in meeting the following national performance objectives.

Safety

• Reduce fatalities involving roadway departure (run-off-the-road and head-on) crashes.
• Reduce intersection-related fatalities.
• Reduce pedestrian-related fatalities.
• Support national safety strategies, including an increase in seat belt use.

Mobility & Productivity

• Further deploy Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) infrastructure and sustain improvements to system operating practices.
• Mitigate overall impacts of congestion through effective local partnerships.
• Reduce work zone delay by ensuring that all States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Federal Lands offices are engaged in aggressively anticipating and mitigating congestion caused by highway work zones.
• Reduce traffic incident delay by ensuring that all States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Federal Lands offices are engaged in aggressively anticipating and mitigating congestion caused by traffic incidents.
• Improve and expand the National Highway System (NHS) to increase system efficiency and return on investment.

Environment

• Provide training and technical assistance to our partners to minimize the potential adverse environmental impacts of Federal-aid and Federal Lands projects.
• Enhance knowledge of FHWA staff in ecosystem and habitat conservation, and showcase existing exemplary initiatives.
• Achieve reductions in on-road mobile source emissions.

National Security

• Identify critical highway infrastructure, evaluate its risk and vulnerability, and develop measures to reduce vulnerability.
• Ensure preparedness for response to, and recovery from, malevolent attacks on highway infrastructure.
• Facilitate military deployment from forts to ports.
• Initiate research, technology development, and deployment activities in support of a more secure highway system.

Organizational Excellence

• Provide stewardship of funds and coordinate efforts to ensure that our partners maintain good accountability for expenditures.
• Establish timeframes for all current projects requiring Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) or Environmental Assessments (EA). Continue to reduce the environmental processing time for all EIS and EA projects.
• Develop and implement the FHWA Human Capital Plan and the Restructuring Assessment Task Force recommendations for Professional Development and Training.
• Establish, implement, and monitor a system of customer surveys, and agency response to the feedback, to improve customer service and satisfaction.
• Lead and coordinate efforts to effectively perform the role of Innovator for a Better Future, and increase the effectiveness of all FHWA units, as well as our partners and stakeholders, in determining priorities and deploying technologies and innovation.
  

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