SECTION 334.046. Department mission, goals, and objectives.
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1(1) 2The prevailing principles to be considered in planning and developing an integrated, balanced statewide transportation system are: preserving the existing transportation infrastructure; enhancing Florida’s economic competitiveness; and improving travel choices to ensure mobility.
35(2) 36The mission of the Department of Transportation shall be to provide a safe statewide transportation system that ensures the mobility of people and goods, enhances economic prosperity, and preserves the quality of our environment and communities.
72(3) 73The department shall document in the Florida Transportation Plan, in accordance with s. 86339.15587and based upon the prevailing principles of preserving the existing transportation infrastructure, enhancing Florida’s economic competitiveness, and improving travel choices to ensure mobility, the goals and objectives that provide statewide policy guidance for accomplishing the department’s mission.
124(4) 125At a minimum, the department’s goals shall address the following prevailing principles.
137(a) 138Preservation.139-140Protecting the state’s transportation infrastructure investment. Preservation includes:
1481. 149Ensuring that 80 percent of the pavement on the State Highway System meets department standards;
1642. 165Ensuring that 90 percent of department-maintained bridges meet department standards; and
1763. 177Ensuring that the department achieves 100 percent of the acceptable maintenance standard on the state highway system.
194(b) 195Economic competitiveness.197-198Ensuring that the state has a clear understanding of the economic consequences of transportation investments, and how such investments affect the state’s economic competitiveness. The department must develop a macroeconomic analysis of the linkages between transportation investment and economic performance, as well as a method to quantifiably measure the economic benefits of the district-work-program investments. Such an analysis must analyze:
2581. 259The state’s and district’s economic performance relative to the competition.
2692. 270The business environment as viewed from the perspective of companies evaluating the state as a place in which to do business.
2913. 292The state’s capacity to sustain long-term growth.
299(c) 300Mobility.301-302Ensuring a cost-effective, statewide, interconnected transportation system.
History.-s. 12, ch. 84-309; ss. 8, 31, ch. 85-180; s. 4, ch. 90-136; s. 96, ch. 92-152; ss. 8, 24, ch. 93-164; s. 48, ch. 94-237; s. 66, ch. 95-257; s. 43, ch. 99-385; s. 12, ch. 2000-266.
