- Mission [1]
- We continually improve the quality of our Nation's highway system and its intermodal connections. We carry out this mission
by providing leadership, expertise, resources and information in cooperation with our partners to enhance the country's economic
vitality, the quality of life, and the environment. The FHWA directly administers a number of highway transportation activities
including standards development, research and technology, training, technical assistance, highway access to federally owned
lands and Indian lands, and commercial vehicle safety enforcement. Further, FHWA has a significant role, working through partnerships,
programs, policies, and allocating resources which facilitate the strategic development and maintenance of State and local
transportation systems as effective and efficient elements of the national intermodal transportation system. We perform our
mission through three main programs: The Federal-aid Highway Program provides Federal financial and technical assistance to
the States to plan, construct, and improve the National Highway System, urban and rural roads, and bridges. The program fosters
the development of a safe, efficient, and effective highway and intermodal system nationwide. The Motor Carrier Safety Program
promotes safe commercial motor vehicle operations to reduce crashes. The program develops, communicates, and enforces performance-based
regulations, for motor carriers, drivers, and vehicles to protect the traveling public on our Nation's highways. The Federal
Lands Highway Program provides access to and within National Forests, National Parks, Indian Lands and other public lands
by administering the Federal Lands Highway, Emergency Relief and Defense Access Roads Programs, performing transportation
planning and conducting engineering studies, preparing plans, letting contracts, supervising construction of facilities, and
conducting pavement and bridge inspections and surveys ratings.
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