PennDOT Details Modernization Efforts on New Web Page

The state Department of Transportation's efforts to modernize and improve the way it does business are now detailed on a new web page.

These efforts, outlined at www.dot.state.pa.us under the heading, “Modern PennDOT,” will be updated regularly as progress continues.

Efforts to implement modernization ideas recommended by PennDOT employees started early last year.

While some of the additional modernization ideas suggested last year by the Transportation Funding Advisory Commission will require legislative action, PennDOT is moving forward with the ones that do not.

To view the advisory commission’s recommendations, visit www.tfac.pa.gov, click on final report, and then click on modernization.

Some of the many modernization efforts being worked on include:

• Continuing cooperation with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to join services and share materials and equipment;
• Expanding the study of transit systems to possibly change from county-based to regional organizations that save money and respond more quickly to customers; and  
• Conducting a pilot study on bridge program management to bundle projects and complete them more quickly.

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