Abstract: The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will enter the 21st century guided by a new leadership team and a strategic plan. The five strategic goals laid out in FHWA's Strategic Plan for 1997-2002, which provides the focus for Administrator Kenneth R. Wykle and Deputy Administrator Gloria J. Jeff, are safety, including highway and bridge maintenance, collision-avoidance systems, intelligent cruise control, and efforts across the board to improve highway safety; mobility, encompassing maintenance of interstate highways, connectors, bridges, and travel/weather information; productivity, recognizing the critical importance of economic growth and trade, intermodalism, technology, standards, freeway management, and information systems; human and natural environment, placing due emphasis on alternative fuels, congestion mitigation, air quality improvement, and protection of wetlands and natural habitats to enhance the American quality of life; and national security, including the National Highway System, as well as connectors to intermodal facilities, bridges, and access to military installations.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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