Click on the links below to see the strategies and objectives
associated with each goal.
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Goal 1: Develop an
organizational structure and strategies designed to address the future
multimodal transportation needs of all Texans
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Objective: Develop a proactive internal and external
communication plan that fosters transparency
Strategies
- Establish guidance for ensuring proactive and
transparent communication with the Legislature and
citizens on agency program responsibilities,
multimodal project selection, and resource
allocation decisions at all levels of the
organization
- Ensure the timely flow of information to, from
and among all TxDOT offices at all levels
Objective: Develop a comprehensive performance
management program to enhance program evaluation, decision
making, resource utilization, and product delivery
Strategies:
- Develop performance measures and reporting
process for key goals and objectives
- Create a performance driven and transparent
project prioritization and selection process
- Develop and implement a project selection and
delivery process that encourages participation by
the full range of transportation, environmental and
community stakeholders (public and private)
throughout the planning, design and implementation
process, from project concept to project delivery
Objective: Develop and nurture partnerships with
communities, agencies and other transportation stakeholders
Strategies
- Collaborate with local and regional communities
and stakeholders to plan, design, build, and
maintain the state's transportation infrastructure
Objective: Enhance workforce recruitment,
retention, and leadership development efforts
Strategies
- Provide mentoring, formal and informal training,
competitive compensation, and opportunities for
professional growth to ensure that TxDOT attracts
and maintains a highly skilled workforce
- Actively seek and value the input of employees
in shaping the direction of the agency
- Review and update policies and procedures to
ensure corporate knowledge transfer
- Promote workforce diversity
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Goal 2: Enhance safety for
all Texas transportation system users
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Objective: Reduce fatalities and serious injuries on the Texas
transportation system
Strategies
- Identify and implement system wide, corridor, and location-specific
best practices for improving safety and develop an approach to guide
investment decisions in the Strategic Highway Safety Plan
- Influence driver behavior by supporting safety outreach programs
proportionate to demonstrated safety problems
- Assess the roadway system to enhance the safety of multimodal
interfaces, including interactions between vehicles, pedestrians,
bicycles, rail, and other alternative modes
Objective: Partner with public and private entities to plan for,
coordinate, and respond to disasters and emergencies
Strategies
- Partner with public and private entities to establish lines of
communication, develop emergency management and response plans for a
diverse array of disasters and emergencies, and periodically evaluate
the effectiveness of response strategies
- Provide public information on TxDOT?s emergency services, using a
variety of traveler information platforms
- Conduct emergency preparedness exercises to practice response plan
execution
Objective: Promote work zone safety to protect roadway workers and the
traveling public
Strategies
- Identify and implement best practices for work zone management
including standards for the number, duration, and impact of work zones
- Provide workforce training, improve contractor enforcement, and
increase knowledge and safety awareness of work zones
- Improve work zone traffic control devices and design practices
- Improve driver compliance with work zone traffic controls through
the use of law enforcement officers trained in enforcement procedures in
work zones
Objective: Measure, monitor, and report performance in improving
safety
Strategies
- Establish appropriate performance measures for tracking safety
results
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Goal 3: Maintain the
existing Texas transportation system
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Objective: Develop optimal asset management programs to protect existing
infrastructure investments
Strategies
- Identify, define, and implement best practices for routine
maintenance to extend the useful life of system elements
- Identify, define, and implement best practices for preventative
maintenance to avoid and minimize the risk of future extensive
rehabilitation
- Identify, define, and implement best practices for substandard
infrastructure rehabilitation to maintain the safe and efficient use of
the system
- Establish and implement environmental stewardship standards, based
on best practices, within maintenance programs
Objective: Ensure timely and effective emergency maintenance response
and damage repair
Strategies
- Standardize emergency maintenance response strategies, including
lines of communication, response protocols and staff responsibilities
- Timely communicate to the public the nature and location of damaged
infrastructure and the estimated time for repair
- Identify and implement best practices to react more timely to damage
from unforeseen events
Objective: Measure, monitor, and report performance in maintaining the
existing transportation system
Strategies
- Establish appropriate performance measures to track system
maintenance results
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Goal 4: Promote congestion
relief strategies
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Objective: Implement multimodal infrastructure, operational and
technological solutions to address congestion and mobility needs
Strategies
- Work with partners to develop regional congestion management plans
- Consider operational, technology and policy strategies to address
congestion prior to investing in new capacity
- Work with local and regional partners to improve incident management
strategies to combat non-recurring congestion impacts
Objective: Focus congestion relief efforts on the most severely
congested elements of the state transportation system
Strategies
- Develop and implement a process to prioritize congestion relief projects,
taking into consideration regional differences as well as mobility,
economic, environmental, and social costs, benefits and impacts
Objective: Measure, monitor, and report performance in providing
congestion relief
Strategies
- Establish appropriate performance measures to track congestion
relief results
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Goal 5: Enhance system
connectivity
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Objective: Ensure Texas industries can efficiently access statewide,
regional, national, and international markets and gateways
Strategies
- Identify the existing and emerging industries, gateways, and
facilities that contribute most to current and future economic vitality
- Develop a process to prioritize connectivity improvements for Texas
industries and gateways
Objective: Provide coordinated, multimodal transportation facilities
and networks to connect all statewide population, economic, recreational, and
cultural centers
Strategies
- Work with local and regional stakeholders to identify the
population, economic, recreational, and cultural centers that contribute
most to statewide and regional quality of life
- Develop a process to prioritize regional and statewide connectivity
improvements, taking into consideration mobility, economic,
environmental, and social costs, benefits, and impacts
Objective: Measure, monitor, and report performance in enhancing
system connectivity.
Strategies
- Establish appropriate performance measures to track the results of
enhancing system connectivity
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Goal 6: Facilitate the
development and exchange of comprehensive multimodal funding strategies
with transportation program and project partners
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Objective: Assess and document transportation system needs and available
revenues in periodic updates of the long-range Texas Transportation Plan
Strategies:
- Provide regular updates of needs, revenue estimates, and forecasts
and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
Objective: Explore all available multimodal financing options while
not recommending any particular strategy
Strategies:
- Work with stakeholders to develop likely alternative funding
scenarios and describe potential mobility, safety, system condition,
economic development, and environmental impacts
Objective: Regularly communicate with the Texas public about the
program results that come from maximizing existing funding levels as well as the
consequences of alternative future funding levels
Strategies
- Summarize and communicate information about the full set of
potential funding and financing options available to Texas and best
practices from other states
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