2009-2015 Strategic Plan Overview
The Washington State Department of Transportation’s 2009-15 Strategic Plan, Business Directions, sets forth the agency’s strategic direction for the 2009-11 biennium and beyond. The plan is both pragmatic and positive in its outlook, recognizing the need for ongoing stewardship of and new innovations in our transportation system. The coming years play a crucial role in determining our state’s transportation future, and the strategic plan identifies how WSDOT will meet that challenge.
WSDOT’s mission is to keep people and business moving by operating and improving the state’s transportation systems vital to our taxpayers and communities. In order to accomplish this mission, WSDOT works towards achieving five goals: safety, preservation, mobility (congestion relief), environmental quality, and system stewardship. These goals are consistent with the statewide transportation policy goals established by the Legislature for all transportation agencies. Not everything WSDOT does is represented in the strategic plan. Instead the plan is focused on what we believe to be the highest priorities for Washington’s citizens, now and into the future.
Performance management and reporting is a high priority at WSDOT and reflected in the strategic plan. The plan identifies a number of measures that will be used to track performance against the plan. These strategies and related activities are aligned with those within our 2009-11 budget request. They are also consistent with performance measures used in the Priorities of Government program (POG), the Government Management and Accountability Program (GMAP), and the Office of Financial Management's Transportation Progress Report.
The 2009-15 Business Directions: Strategic Plan is available as a PDF (1.9 mb) by clicking here.
To view the 2007-11 edition of the Strategic Plan, click here.
Also available online is the current edition of the Gray Notebook, which provides quarterly, in-depth reports on agency and transportation system performance. The Gray Notebook reflects WSDOT’s emphasis on accountability and communicating performance results for all key agency programs and systems, including priorities within the strategic plan.