The continuing challenge that we face is enhancing the movement of people and goods from one place to another, while ensuring the safety of the traveling public, promoting the efficiency of the transportation system, and protecting the human and natural environment. To meet these challenges, in concert with our partners and stakeholders, we strive to serve as leaders, innovators, and stewards, through the following goal-based Strategic Themes:
The above images is of the 70/75 Interchange currently under construction in Dayton, Ohio. The six year project will transform the interchange into one of the safest, most modern and efficient interstate crossroads in the country.
These piers are part of the new one half mile long flyover ramp
Highway Safety:
The Ohio Division Highway Safety Program strives to develop and improve partnerships and programs within the engineering, education, enforcement and Emergency Medical Service communities throughout Ohio to improve highway safety while also promoting Ohio safety community as a leader in this area. This is accomplished through programs that:
- Improve roadway design
- Reduce congestion in work zones
- Improve rail-highway grade crossings
- Increase seat belt/child restraint usage
- Decrease drunk or impaired driving
- Provide timely & accurate crash data
Provide timely & accurate traffic incident information
Unit Performance Objective:
Reduce the highway fatality rate.
Strategic Measure:
Reduce the highway fatality rate to 1.0 per hundred million VMT in 2008. Ohio's Highway Fatality Work Zone Safety 12
Mobility and Productivity:
Continually preserve, improve, and expand the highway transportation system while, at the same time, enhancing the operation of the existing highway system and intermodal connectors. Key objectives include:
- Reduce work zone delay
- Reduce incident delay
- Further deploy Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Provide longer lasting highway structures
- Improve pavement surface characteristics
- Increase use of accelerated construction techniques
Global Connectivity:
Continually promote and facilitate a more efficient domestic and global transportation system that enables economic growth. Key objectives include:
- Sustain the economic efficiency of goods movement on the surface transportation system
- Reduce travel time in freight significant corridors
Fort Washington Way in Cincinnati
While only 35th in geographic size, Ohio has the nation's 5th highest traffic volume traveling on the 4th largest interstate network and 2nd largest bridge inventory.
Environmental/Stewardship:
Continually protect and enhance the natural environment and communities affected by highway transportation. Key objectives are:
- Promote transportation solutions that enhance/protect ecosystems and sustain ecosystem viability.
- Reduce motor vehicle emissions and maintain high level of compliance with air quality conformity.
- Improve planning and environmental processes to achieve better results and timeliness.
- Decrease median time for all Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and Environmental Assessments (EA).
Wetland Mitigation area created in Pickaway County
Unit Performance Objective:
Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the environmental process.
Strategic Measure:
Decrease the median time to complete EIS to 36 months by 2007.
Meigs County
National Homeland Security:
Continually to improve highway security and support national defense mobility through collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security, and our state, local, private sector, other federal agency partners. The goal is to keep our national transportation system operating and ensure that system users are safe and secure. Key objectives are:
- Develop strategies to enhance transportation security.
- Ensure military transportation needs are met.
- Develop strategies to improve emergency preparedness response, and recovery efforts.
Organizational Excellence:
Continually improve our external customer service by providing timely and credible responses and decisions, anticipating customer needs in advance, offering value-added technical assistance in all program areas, and advancing FHWA's ability to manage for results and innovation. Key objectives are:
- Improve stewardship and oversight of financial management, construction, and design activities to reduce cost growth on projects.
- Implement a Quality Improvement program to address high risk areas and areas of interest to the state DOT.
- Implement division stewardship and oversight plan.
- Improve the statewide and metropolitan transportation plans and programs.
- Provide training, best practices, and other innovative techniques to support an effective and efficient Federal aid right of way program.
- Improve customer and partner satisfaction.
- Improve employee satisfaction and effectiveness.
- Improve employee and partner training and professional development.
- Identify and deploy priority technologies.
Employee Satisfaction
Customer Satisfaction
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