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This activity provides statewide toll facility maintenance and preservation of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, State Route 167 Express Toll Lanes, State Route 520 Bridge, State Route 99 Tunnel, and Interstate 405 Express Toll Lanes, State Route 509 Expressway, and State Route 167 Expressway.

This activity is responsible for current and future statewide toll collection operations, including toll account management, customer service, and toll payment enforcement in order to safeguard state assets. The activity manages the quality and efficiency of toll operations for state transportation facilities financed through direct user fees or tolls. Toll Operations is responsible to forecast and analyze traffic, revenue, operations, and maintenance costs for recommending toll schedule adjustments to the toll setting authority. It also provides statewide tolling operations, which currently include the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Interstate 405 Express Lanes and State Route 167 Express Toll Lanes, State Route 520 Bridge, and State Route 99 Tunnel, State Route 509 Expressway and State Route 167 Expressway.

This activity provides management of the department's information technology systems’ architecture and security environments for enterprise business applications.  It also includes project management knowledge and expertise, project planning, project execution, project coordination, and oversight of enterprise technology projects.

This activity provides operational coordination of distributed technologies across the department statewide.  This coordination supports geographically dispersed business units, including the department's six regional locations and the Washington State Ferries that require on-site technology, operational support, and services.  These dispersed technology groups also serve the department's more remote locations such as maintenance shops and highway construction project offices.

This activity provides management and support services for the enterprise mainframe operations, server operations, network infrastructure, data management, enterprise software licensing, desktop and laptop lifecycle replacements, and support and maintenance of enterprise business applications. It also includes cybersecurity operations.

This activity operates, maintains, and is responsible for capital improvements and preservation of 968 department owned buildings and structures at 279 separate sites across the state. Sites include region headquarters, maintenance shops, project engineer offices, laboratories, materials storage sites, communication sites, pits, quarries, and stock pile storage areas.

This activity includes replacement, preservation, and improvements to the department's buildings and related sites. It focuses on providing a safe and efficient work environment by preserving the department's assets. The activity also performs preservation projects such life safety issues, building code compliance issues, ADA concerns, HVAC repairs and replacements, roof replacements, site environmental cleanups, and other code compliance requirements for facilities.

This activity includes services by the Transportation Equipment Fund that owns, operates, and maintains 126 vehicle fuel stations throughout the state, which provide fuel to the Department of Transportation, State Patrol, and approximately 100 other governmental agencies. This includes ensuring 24-hour access to fuel during regular operations as well as during inclement weather, earthquakes, or other emergencies.

This activity includes services by the Transportation Equipment Fund that provide mission critical vehicles and equipment to agency programs so that they can accomplish their missions, such as emergency response, snow and ice removal, roadway maintenance, bridge maintenance, field engineering, traffic control, highway construction, and responding to natural disasters. It also includes the costs of equipment replacement, maintenance and repair, fleet management, logistical support, equipment disposal, and inventory management.

This activity preserves and fosters the development of aeronautics and the state’s aviation system of 133 public use airports, promotes the benefits of airports, advocates for aviation safety, provides air search and rescue, and manages state airports. Activities include the airport aid grant and loan programs, aviation system and land use planning, air search and rescue operations, aviation emergency services planning, piloted aircraft and commercial unpiloted aircraft registration, maintenance of 15 state-operated airports, seven of which are owned by the state, and unpiloted aircraft systems coordination. State grants, loan opportunities and technical assistance are provided to public use airports for infrastructure preservation and improvements, planning, safety, and security. The grant program relies on data obtained and prioritized by the Statewide Capital Improvement Program to inform grant awards.

The Program Delivery, Management, and Support program includes the essential functions and activities needed to implement the highway construction program. The program includes executive management and support at headquarters and in the six regions. These executive management and support services reflect core functions necessary for program delivery regardless of the size of the highway construction program. It also includes the regions’ administrative services. The department’s Environmental Services Office resides in this program.

This activity provides technical, policy, and regulatory support to project teams and offices. Key objectives are minimizing impacts to air, land, and water; protecting biological resources; protecting cultural resources; increasing resilience by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and preparing and adapting for climate change; improving and streamlining environmental documentation; and improving regulatory coordination and compliance. This includes supporting the department’s fish passage commitments and sustainable transportation objectives, obtaining statewide environmental approvals and permits, setting environmental compliance expectations and improvements, implementing WSDOT's stormwater permit, maintaining statewide environmental procedures, and providing statewide environmental leadership and issue resolution. This activity involves close coordination with external groups and governments that have environmental interests related to transportation.

This activity funds projects that increase highway capacity at strategic locations, with the long term goal of reducing congestion, increasing mobility, and funding urban bike lane connections. Examples include completing the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane system in the Puget Sound Region, improving the level of service on rural highways, and mitigating congestion on urban highways in cooperation with local and regional jurisdictions.

This activity funds projects for collision reduction and prevention to improve the safety and security of transportation customers and the transportation system. Examples include correcting deficiencies in high accident locations, corridors, and pedestrian crossings; making improvements at potentially hazardous locations; addressing roadway intersections; and including railroad crossings on multi-lane highways.

Provides for state highway system improvements that contribute direct economic benefits, enhancing the movement of people and goods to ensure a prosperous economy. Examples include strengthening highways where travel is restricted due to freeze-thaw closures, improving bridges and overpasses that have height or weight restrictions, constructing truck climbing lanes, and constructing new safety rest areas.

This activity provides funding to correct or reduce environmental impacts from existing highway systems to meet environmental requirements that have emerged since the highways were built. Examples include addressing highway storm water runoff, removing fish passage barriers that are caused by the highway, and reducing public exposure to noise by constructing noise abatement walls along highways.

This activity explores and cultivates opportunities to create public and private sector partnerships that can help advance transportation projects, programs, and policies. This is accomplished by the following: 1) analysis and assessment of new ideas and possibilities for achieving transportation goals; 2) consulting with and advising agency administrators, project engineers, and elected or appointed officials who seek innovative solutions for transportation issues; 3) assisting businesses that have expertise or resources that the department may need, by explaining state laws, policies and programs, and helping them find a way to do business with the department; and 4) assisting in the development of a project once the value to be gained has been demonstrated. This activity includes a pilot program that supports the construction of Transit Oriented Development facilities, where appropriate on department owned Right of Way. In addition, this activity includes programs to deploy electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure, leveraging state and federal funding, as well as state, federal, and private financing opportunities, to advance the adoption and use of zero emission vehicles.

All expenditures directly related to managing maintenance of highways that cannot be readily distributed to specific maintenance activity or control sections. Limited to allocations, expenditures including salaries, wages, fringe benefits, travel expenses, materials, supplies, and other expenses incurred by some positions at HQ and in regions.

The M2 subprogram has the tremendous responsibility of maintaining roadway, bridges, roadsides, signal systems, safety rest areas and other critical highway assets across the state. Maintenance Operations is also at the ready to prepare for and respond to severe weather events including snow and ice, storms, landslides, fires or other emergencies including crashes or other traffic events.

Supports acquisition and administration of stores and stockpile activities. Significant items are signs, traffic signal parts, illumination parts, engineering supplies, pits, and processed mineral aggregates in stockpiles.

Supports material production and storage sites for beginning and ending inventory activities. Significant items are manufacturing materials in progress and sign manufacturing.

This activity provides funds to preserve, replace, rehabilitate, and extend the life of state owned roadways. Projects include chips sealing, asphalt overlays, and concrete replacement and other strategic preservation activities that restore or extend the life of the roadway surface. It also restores basic safety features associated with the roadway.

This activity provides funds to preserve, replace, and rehabilitate bridges and other highway structures. Work includes painting, bridge deck repairs, and seismic protections. The focus is to preserve the operational and structural integrity of bridges and structures and reduce the risk of catastrophic bridge failure from natural causes.

This activity funds the preservation of other facilities and highway features for which the department is responsible, such as basic safety features, rest areas and weigh stations. Projects include rehabilitating drainage systems, stabilizing slopes, restoring safety features related to preservation of paving and bridge structures, and refurbishing existing rest areas and weigh stations to extend their service life.

This activity is directed at maximizing highway transportation system efficiency, and working toward ensuring the safe use and operation of the highway system. The activity includes, but is not limited to, the following: traffic management centers; high occupancy vehicle operation and analysis; express lane and ramp meter operation and analysis; commercial vehicle information systems and networks; traffic signal operations; outdoor advertising control; radio operations; and safety investigations and responding to public concerns.

This activity minimizes the traffic impact of disabled vehicles, collisions, and other roadway incidents through early detection and quick clearance. Its main function is clearing roads and helping drivers to restore the normal flow of traffic as safely and quickly as possible. The activity also maintains operational readiness to respond to and expedite the safe clearance of major traffic incidents in cooperation and coordination with other responding entities under the National Incident Traffic Management System.

This activity includes low cost/high return projects that can be implemented quickly to improve the operational safety or reduce congestion on the highway system. Projects generally target problem areas identified in either the priority programming process, or by constituents, or elected officials. This activity can also be used to respond quickly to emerging issues related to roadway safety. Typical projects include: traffic control signing improvements; roadway striping, rumble strip installation or other road marking improvements; installation or improvement of traffic signals or other electronic devices; and roadway access control through channelization or lane reconfiguration.

This activity constructs Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) projects that improve traveler information and provide safety and congestion relief to the traveling public by applying advanced technology to the transportation system. Typical capital projects include: traffic cameras; variable message signs; highway advisory radios; road/weather information systems; ramp meters; traffic data collectors; and traffic management centers.

This activity provides agency-wide executive management and support service functions. The functions funded in this program benefit the whole organization and support all product and service delivery.

This activity supports planning functions within the Multimodal Planning Division, as well as Active Transportation, Management of Mobility and Access, Connected and Automated Transportation, Washington State Ferries planning, Capital Program Development and Management, Freight Systems, Public Transportation, Research, Strategic Assessment and planning units within WSDOT Regions. Federal funds for the State Planning and Research (SPR), provides the data, information, analysis, plans, and research needed by decision makers when making transportation system investment decisions. Units supported by SPR funds collaborate with local governments, regional transportation planning organizations, other state agencies, tribal transportation planners, and federal transportation agencies, to make efficient use of resources as well as provide an integrated transportation system that supports our communities, economy, and environment. Work conducted includes: • Statewide and regional multimodal transportation planning; • Self-initiated and legislatively requested corridor studies; • Data activities including the collection and analysis of roadway characteristics and conditions, traffic, bike and pedestrian volumes, vehicle speeds and traffic crashes; • Mapping and Geographic Information System services; • Research activities concerning construction and materials, traffic management, environment, design and safety, bridges and structures, security, maintenance, and multimodal transportation. The Multimodal Planning Division oversees federal (PL) pass through and state appropriated funds distributed directly to federal designated Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) and state Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPO) respectively.

This activity administers state and federal grants awarded to public and private transportation organizations serving rural communities, the elderly, and people with disabilities. The activity provides overall administration, policy development, and reporting for public transportation programs. Staff perform an oversight role to ensure delivery of projects and compliance with state and federal requirements. Staff are responsible for planning, overseeing procurement, managing capital assets, and providing technical assistance to public and private transportation organizations, including transit agencies and local jurisdictions. Staff also provide support for improved coordination of transportation throughout the state.

This activity administers formula and competitive distribution of state and federal grants to fund projects that maximize and increase the efficiency of transportation corridors statewide to improve connections and integrate public transportation and highway systems. This activity awards grants to public transportation organizations, local jurisdictions, tribes, and major employers for public transportation projects. Programs supporting this activity include Commute Trip Teduction/Transportation Demand Management, Transit Support, and Tribal Transit Mobility. Staff are responsible for administering the statewide Commute Trip Reduction program and its distribution of funds, as well as conducting an oversight role to ensure delivery of capital and operating projects and compliance with state and federal requirements. Staff also provide technical assistance, coordination, trip reduction/transportation demand management strategies, and educational materials to the public, the department's regional offices, local and regional jurisdictions, and public transportation providers. This activity also includes the statewide oversight of safety and security functions for local rail transit systems.

This activity supports the statewide mobility of people, goods, and services by preserving ferry system terminals that facilitate users of the transportation system moving between marine and land modes of travel. A terminal capital preservation project extends the life of an existing facility without significantly changing its use. Its focus is refurbishment or replacement of the systems making up the terminal that have reached the end of their life cycles. Examples of these systems include trestles, towers, transfer spans, bridge seats, dolphins, wingwalls, buildings, vehicle holding areas, utility infrastructure, and toll booths.

This activity supports the statewide mobility of people, goods, and services by building new terminals, increasing existing terminal throughput capacity and connectivity to other modes of travel, improving terminal conditions, accommodating changes in service or clientele, promoting efficient and effective operation of the ferry system, achieving cost savings and generating new revenue, protecting the environment, ensuring the safety of people and property, and responding to emergencies. Examples of this type of activity include building a new multimodal terminal, adding vessel charging capability, adding a new operating slip to facilitate more vessel landings and sailings, expanding vehicle holding lanes, building a pedestrian bridge from the ferry terminal to a commuter rail station, building a food court inside a terminal building, replanting eel grass displaced by expansion of a terminal's footprint, and implementing safety systems either voluntarily or in accordance with regulatory agency mandates.

This activity supports the statewide mobility of people, goods, and services by preserving the systems that comprise the vessels that provide the public with marine transportation services. A vessel preservation project refurbishes or replaces the systems making up the vessel that have reached the end of their life cycles. This type of investment extends the lives of existing vessel systems without significantly changing their uses. Examples of these systems include the hull, engines, propulsion controls, sprinkler piping, radars, auto decks, and passenger spaces.

This activity supports the statewide mobility of people and services by acquiring new hybrid-electric vessels either to replace retiring vessels or to increase the carrying capacity of the fleet, converting existing vessels to hybrid-electric propulsion, expanding the capacity of existing vessels, improving vessel conditions, accommodating changes in service or clientele, promoting efficient and effective operation of the ferry system, achieving cost savings and generating new revenue, protecting the environment, ensuring the safety of people and property, and responding to emergencies. Examples of this type of activity include new hybrid electric vessel construction, installation of fuel consumption equipment to facilitate greater fuel economy, generating revenue through advertising, and implementing safety systems either voluntarily or in accordance with regulatory agency mandates.

This activity directly supports the legislatively-approved service schedule and service hours for the ferry system. It includes labor, fuel, and materials for deck and engine operations of the fleet.

This activity directly supports the legislatively approved service schedule and service hours for the ferry system. It includes labor and materials for terminal operations, revenue collection costs, traffic control costs and costs for contracted terminal agents in the San Juan Islands and at Sidney, British Columbia..

This activity includes labor, materials, repair contracts, and miscellaneous costs associated with vessel maintenance. It also includes the labor costs for engine room crews when vessels are in maintenance or lay-up status. Vessel maintenance is accomplished by Washington State Ferries at its dedicated maintenance facility at Eagle Harbor. Larger vessel maintenance contracts and drydockings are performed at commercial shipyards around Puget Sound.

This activity includes labor, materials, repair contracts, and miscellaneous costs associated with terminal maintenance. Terminal maintenance includes routine asset maintenance and inspection performed by Eagle Harbor maintenance facility staff, and contracted maintenance for major maintenance needs.

This activity is responsible for funding, planning, and implementing rail passenger and freight service. Including operation of state sponsored service between Vancouver, BC, and Portland, OR; maintaining state owned locomotives and stations used for state sponsored operations; planning for rail and all freight modes.

This activity funds capital investments in the passenger rail program, including track improvements, and passenger rail equipment preservation and heavy maintenance.

This activity analyzes conditions, trends, light density rail issues, and potential needs of Washington's freight rail system; oversees operations of state owned rail lines in Eastern Washington; and provides investments through state funds and federal grants to preserve and improve freight rail service in the state.

This activity provides funding for program delivery and policy oversight for pedestrian facilities, bike facilities, shared use paths, traffic calming, crossing improvements, and safe routes to schools. It provides technical assistance on pedestrian and bicycle projects, community engagement, and planning for the department, local agencies, tribes and nonprofits; coordinates training for local public works agencies, tribes, and regional staff; and assists local agencies and tribes with project development and delivery. It oversees school based and after school bicycle safety education and e-bike program delivery including rebate vouchers and lending libraries through grants to agencies, tribes, and nonprofits.

This activity manages the local agency federal aid program that provides funds to cities, counties, ports, tribal governments, transit systems, and metropolitan and regional planning organizations for transportation improvement projects off and on the state highway system. This activity also administers state-funded, local agency grant programs as well as individual local agency projects including Connecting WA, Move Ahead WA ,and freight mobility. It is responsible for ensuring reasonable compliance with state and federal regulations for FHWA and state funded projects.

This activity works statewide to improve connections between transit services and to improve the integration between public transportation and the highway system. OTM was established through specific legislation (RCW 47.01.330) as a resource and catalyst for transportation system efficiency and integration. Staff provide technical assistance to local jurisdictions, transit agencies and WSDOT corridor projects on system integration and administer a competitive grant process to fund projects that maximize and improve the efficiency of transportation corridors.

This activity administers a vanpool grant program for public transit agencies to add vanpool vehicles to their fleet. Funds can also be used for incentives for employers to increase employee vanpool use.