Mission, Vision, Goals
FHWA Mission
Enhancing mobility through innovation, leadership and public service
Florida Division Mission
To work in cooperation with our transportation partners to ensure that Florida's transportation network meets the needs and exceeds the expectations of our customers.
To achieve this mission we will:
- Empower employees and value their diversity
- Be flexible and risk takers
- Be customer driven
- Be visionary
- Be good stewards of the public trust
Recognizing that people are our most valuable resource, we will create a working environment where the team members are encouraged to develop and use their skills and abilities to the fullest.
Our Vision
Improving transportation for a strong America
Our Five Goals
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 aggressively anticipating and mitigating congestion caused by highway work zones.
- Reduce traffic incident delay by 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 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 or Environmental Assessments. Continue to reduce the environmental processing time for all 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 our partners and stakeholders, in determining priorities and deploying technologies and innovation.
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