Agency: Transportation

Function

The Utah Department of Transportation's mission is "Quality Transportation Today, Better Transportation Tomorrow." The department recognizes that good transportation leads to economic prosperity and a better quality of life.

To achieve these ends, the department strives for four strategic goals:

1. taking care of what we have;
2. making the system work better;
3. improving safety; and
4. increasing capacity.

The Utah Department of Transportation is responsible for over 5,800 miles of highways - 13% of the state's total highway road system of over 44,000 miles. However, 67% of the total annual travel is on these roads. This responsibility includes snow removal, signage, bridges, repairs, building, and maintenance as well as the Traffic Operations Center with live camera coverage for monitoring road conditions, accidents, and safety.

The Utah Department of Transportation has offices throughout the state. The main office in the Calvin Rampton Building in Salt Lake City houses general administration, community relations, port of entry administration, labs, and vehicle maintenance. There are four region offices and three district offices from Ogden to Cedar City. Personnel in each region or district office oversee administration, construction, and maintenance of all state roads, highways, and freeways within their area.

Statutory Authority

The Utah Department of Transportation is governed by the Transportation Code, Title 72 of the Utah Code.

• UCA 72-01 Department of Transportation Administration
• UCA 72-02 Transportation Finances
• UCA 72-03 Highway Jurisdiction and Classification
• UCA 72-04 Designation of State Highways
• UCA 72-05 Rights-of-Way
• UCA 72-06 Construction, Maintenance, and Operations
• UCA 72-07 Protection of Highways
• UCA 72-08 Pedestrian Safety and Facilities Act
• UCA 72-09 Motor Carrier Safety Act
• UCA 72-10 Aeronautics
• UCA 72-11 Passenger Ropeway Systems
• UCA 72-12 Travel Reduction

Performance

2013 Bridge System Performance Goal:

• Have no more than 10 percent of the bridge system rated in "poor" condition and have action plans in place to repair or replace each bridge when needed.

The 2012 performance goal was the same and was met.

2012 Preservation and Rehabilitation Performance Goal:

• Through UDOT's efforts, the ride quality is in good or fair condition on 99 percent of the Interstates, 96 percent of Level 1 roadways and 84 percent of Level 2 roadways.

Performance goals were met on interstate highways. Level 2 highways performance was less than the 84 percent goal. As part of its preservation and rehabilitation efforts, UDOT spent $200 million taking care of 5,840 miles of state highways.

2013 Snow and Ice Removal Performance Goal:

• UDOT's target grade for state maintained roads is an A-.

2012 Accomplishment:

• UDOT achieved a performance goal of B+ for fiscal year 2012. The snow and ice removal budget for FY 2012 was $23.3 million.

2013 Traveler Information Performance Goals:

• Improve the quality of data reported during inclement weather on roural road segments.
• Improve the UDOT Traffic website and mobile application to include personalization.
• Increase the number of downloads of the UDOT Traffic Mobile App to 125,000.

2012 Accomplishments:

• Created and implemented the UDOT Traffic mobile application.
• Developed a plan for improving traveler information on rural road segments (will be implemented winter 2012-13).

2013 Express Lanes Performance Goals:

• Implement in-house maintenance of the Express Lane System.
• Operate the Express Lanes to maintain at least a 55 mph speed 90 percent of the time.
• Manage Express Lanes usage so as to shift at least 500 vehicles in the peak hour from the general purpose lanes to the Express Lanes while maintaining at least 55 mph speed 90 percent of the time.

• Met all performance goals for speed and volume in the Express Lane.

2013 Traffic Signal Coordination Performance Goals:

• Identify corridors in need of timing improvements.
• Implement improved timing and document the results with "before and after“ studies.
• Implement real-time performance measurement of traffic signal timing.

2012 Accomplishments:

• Reorganized to implement a new "World Class" signal organizational structure, pursuant to transitioning the Department to World Class Signal Operations.
• Developed and implemented a comprehensive preventative maintenance program for traffic signals.
• Optimized signals along 10 corridors in Regions 1, 2, 3, and 4.
• Implemented ACS Lite pilot project in Heber City.

2013 Zero Fatalities Performance Goals:

• Continue to increase public awareness of safety issues.
• Forge new partnerships with safety organizations across the state.
• Implement Zero Fatalities Parent Class for Driver's Education courses statewide with the Department of Education.

• Overall traffic fatalities were down 4% to 243, the lowest figure in 37 years.

Funding Detail

For more detail about a particular source of finance or organizational unit, click a linked entry in the left column of the table(s) below.

Table 1: Operating and Capital Budget Including Expendable Funds and Accounts

Table 8: Capital Project Funds