Shape
an accessible, affordable, reliable transportation system for
all people, goods, and regions. Support a transportation system
that sustains America’s economic growth.
We Aim To Achieve These Strategic Outcomes:
- Improve the physical condition of the transportation
system.
- Reduce transportation time from origin to
destination for the individual transportation user.
- Increase the reliability of trip times for
the individual transportation user.
- Increase access to transportation systems
for the individual user.
- Reduce the cost of transportation for the
individual user. ?
- Reduce barriers to trade that are related
to transportation.
- Improve the U.S. international competitive
position in transportation goods and services.
- Improve the capacity of the transportation
workforce.
- Expand opportunities for all businesses,
especially small, women-owned, and disadvantaged businesses (discussed
in the Organizational Excellence chapter).
Mobility as much as any other factor defines us as
a Nation, and is intertwined with the Nation’s economic growth.
It connects people with work, school, community services, markets,
and other people. The U.S. transportation system carries over 4.6
trillion passenger-miles of travel and 3.9 trillion ton-miles of
freight every year – generated by more than 276 million people
and 6 million businesses.
DOT’s aim is an affordable, reliable and accessible
transportation system. To achieve reliability and accessibility,
our transportation system frequently relies on common public infrastructure
that is maintained on limited national resources – our land,
waterways, and airspace. DOT’s objective is to optimize capital
investment in these public systems and manage them to maximize the
benefit to all Americans. The FY 2004 budget proposes $35.7 billion
in mobility funding to meet this challenge.
A detailed analysis of 2004 strategies follows.
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