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FHWA FY 2019-2022 Strategic Plan

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FHWA Strategic Framework

Mission: Enable and empower the strengthening of a world-class highway system that promotes safety, mobility, and economic growth, while enhancing the quality of life of all Americans.

Values

Public Service (heart icon): We are committed to the pursuit of professional excellence motivated by serving the public interest and providing high-quality products and timely services.

Integrity (compass points icon): Ethics, fairness, and honesty define the way we do our work and conduct ourselves. We have the courage both to be innovative and to make tough decisions

Respect (open hands/palms with the sun above icon): We value individual diversity and the unique strengths, skills, expertise, and background of our employees. We treat others in a polite and courteous manner.

Collaboration (moving gears icon): We maximize our collective talents through teamwork and partnerships based on mutual trust, respect, support, cooperation, and communication.

Family (house icon): We support, care about, listen to, and respond to employees and their family needs.

Personal Development (man and woman together with arms uplifted icon): Through a wide variety of learning opportunities, we nurture the development and use of leadership, technical, and professional skills in all our employees.

Strategic Goals

Safety: Reduce transportation-related fatalities and serious Injuries across the transportation system.

Infrastructure: Invest in infrastructure to ensure mobility and accessibility and to stimulate economic growth, productivity, and competitiveness for American workers and businesses.

Infrastructure: Invest in infrastructure to ensure mobility and accessibility and to stimulate economic growth, productivity, and competitiveness for American workers and businesses.

Innovation: Lead in the development and deployment of innovative practices and technologies to improve the safety and performance of the Nation's transportation system.

Accountability: Serve the Nation with reduced regulatory burden and greater efficiency, effectiveness and accountability.

Strategic Objectives

Strategic Objective #1: Save lives by expanding the use of data driven systemic safety management systems and increasing the adoption of proven safety solutions by all road owners.

Strategic Objective #2: Improve program and project decision-making by using a data-driven approach, asset management principles, and a performance-based program that lead to better conditions and more efficient operations.

Strategic Objective #3: Increase freight and people mobility and reliability by building effective partnerships and encouraging targeted investments.

Strategic Objective #4: Enhance the safety and performance of the Nation's transportation system through research and by accelerating the development and deployment of promising innovative technologies and practices.

Strategic Objective #5: Modernize or, eliminate obsolete, unnecessary, or duplicative policies and regulations to accelerate all phases of project delivery, stimulate innovation, and reduce administrative burdens.

Strategic Objective #6: Transform the workforce and resource management approach to ensure the agency is properly structured, skilled, and equipped to deliver outstanding customer service to our partners and the traveling public.

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