Performance Reporting

2007-2011 Strategic Plan Overview

What’s the Washington State Department of Transportation going to do about the increase in traffic on state highways? What about the state’s aging transportation infrastructure? How is WSDOT going to adapt to changing technology, and to government initiatives like the Regional Transportation Investment District (RTID)? How is the department handling increasing costs for construction materials?

The answers to these questions are contained in Business Directions: WSDOT’s 2007-2011 Strategic Plan. The plan, which complements the biannual budget, focuses on several major issues facing the department over the upcoming years with detailed descriptions of WSDOT’s strategies for addressing them. Business Directions also meets WSDOT’s internal performance management needs, Priorities of Government responsibilities, Government Management and Accountability Performance process, the Governor’s Cabinet Strategic Plan, the Legislative Transportations Benchmarks, OFM budget activities, and the Washington Transportation Plan’s investment priorities.

WSDOT's Six Strategic Initiatives:

1. Improve safety and reliability of the state's transportation system;
2. Maintain structures, facilities, support systems, and services;
3. Preserve the state's existing infrastructure and assets;
4. Deliver quality projects on-time and on-budget;
5. Communicate agency and system performance;
6. Assure the capability, efficiency and safety of WSDOT's workforce.

WSDOT’s strategic plan, by design, does not address every WSDOT activity, project, program or function; instead, the plan focuses on strategies which are key for the next two to six years. The six strategic initiative (objective) areas support the policy directions (goals) provided by multiple directives, and address the key external and internal driving forces that are impacting or have the potential to impact WSDOT’s delivery mandates.

This plan represents the Department’s mission to keep people and business moving by operating and improving the state’s transportation systems vital to taxpayers and communities.

The complete 55-page Strategic Plan (1.47 MB PDF) contains detailed information on WSDOT’s six strategic initiatives and the management principles that serve as driving forces for the Department.

Also available online is the current edition of the Gray Notebook, which reports on measures of the Strategic Plan that WSDOT uses to track progress. The Gray Notebook reflects WSDOT’s emphasis on accountability and communicating performance results for all key agency programs and systems.