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We provide proactive leadership, expertise, resources and information to continually improve the quality of our Nation’s Highway System and its intermodal connections. We undertake this mission in cooperation with all our partners to enhance the country’s economic vitality, quality of life and the environment.
The Partners We Work With and the Customers We Serve
We carry out the legislative requirements of financial assistance programs aimed at improving the highway and related transportation facilities of the Nation. We administer these programs through a set of flexible regulations, policies, and guidelines to ensure that Federal funds are being used efficiently and to achieve the safety, economic development, and other goals of the Federal-aid Highway Program. In providing these Federal funds, we apply the most flexible and innovative financing techniques permissible under the law, and the most efficient administrative processes such as electronic signature.
We work cooperatively with our government, industry, and research community partners to develop, test, and implement the latest proven technological advancements in transportation system, including the Intelligent Transportation System. We promote and maintain a high level of engineering excellence in the delivery of transportation products. We deliver technical training and assistance to State and local transportation agency managers and staff. We foster nationwide uniformity of standards for signs, signals, designs, and safety features on major highway systems.
We promote the use of the best available safety practices and technologies in all phases of highway design and operations. We work cooperatively with our partners to ensure that transportation system plans and improvements take full account of the impacts on the human and natural environment, and that the associated decision processes include the full and open participation of the public. We ensure that all persons and businesses affected by those decisions are treated equitably and in accordance with the law.