Vision, Mission and Goals:
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is charged with the task of providing a safe and environmentally sound transportation system as reflected in the Cabinet’s Mission Statement below. As a state agency, we must satisfy our customers. For the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, this translates into listening to their needs so that we can effectively meet their expectations. Following this course, we have learned our customers expect safer roads, smoother pavements, and improved traffic flow across the Commonwealth.
Cabinet’s Vision:
Working together to lead the Southeast in providing a transportation infrastructure and transportation services for the 21st century that deliver new economic opportunities for all Kentuckians.
Cabinet’s Mission:
To provide a safe, efficient, environmentally sound and fiscally responsible transportation system that delivers economic opportunity and enhances the quality of life in Kentucky. In preparation for the Long-Range Statewide Transportation Plan, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reviewed and considered several basic documents, guiding principles and a visioning process to assist in the development of the goals and objectives for this long-range plan and to set the direction for Kentucky’s transportation system over the next twenty-five years. Those documents and findings are listed and detailed below.
⇒ FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION “MOVING AHEAD” REPORT – A report, prepared by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in February 2001, found that the public has substantial dissatisfaction with travel delays due to heavy traffic and expects continuing efforts to improve highway safety and pavement conditions. This report recommends smarter road management and operation and asserts that building more highways is a lower public priority.
⇒ FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION STRATEGIC GOALS – At the federal government level, the FHWA has embraced the public’s desires to improve safety, upgrade pavement conditions, and improve traffic flow as critical elements of the national highway program strategy. FHWA has included these elements in its “Vital Few” strategic goals.