Highway Infrastructure: Perceptions of Stakeholders on Approaches to Reduce Highway Project Completion Time

摘要

Constructing, improving, and repairing roads and bridges are fundamental to meeting the nation's mobility needs to facilitate commerce, national defense, and pleasure use and to promote economic growth. Therefore, the Congress has an interest in seeing that federally funded highway projects are completed in a timely manner. Many of the organizations with a role in highway project completion have recognized that completing major highway construction projects takes too long--in some cases about 20 years. As a result, these organizations--including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), state departments of transportation, and other stakeholders--have acted to reduce project completion time by developing initiatives in several areas and by publicizing what they believe are successful strategies. The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, enacted in 1998, contained provisions designed to streamline environmental reviews, a component of projects often cited as offering the greatest opportunity for reducing the completion time of federally funded highway projects.