It's Time to Work Together
WE SUPPORT redefining the roles of Federal, State and local governments and the private sector in the delivery of transportation solutions.
Federal, state and local governments and the private sector must all have flexibility to apply innovative techniques in planning, funding, financing, development, delivery, operations, management, preservation, oversight, and accountability.
The Federal government should primarily be responsible for establishing the vision for the nation’s transportation system with an emphasis on transportation facilities with national and international significance for movement of people and freight. The Federal Government should encourage innovation in finance procurement and project delivery in meeting the country’s transportation needs, including utilization of a variety of finance options, technologies and participation with the private sector.
States should be responsible for implementing the national vision and to deliver projects that advance state and national goals. States should have maximum flexibility to achieve goals with a limited oversight role from the Federal government. States are accountable for designing the business strategies to implement the national vision, which means making decisions on projects of statewide significance, directing statewide project planning and overseeing project procurement.
Local and regional leaders, including metropolitan planning organizations, should be responsible for resolving transportation problems that are local and regional in nature. They should have maximum flexibility to make local and regional decisions. The private sector’s primary responsibility is to partner with states and local governments wherever practical at every stage in the finance, operation, design, maintenance and construction of highways.