Annual Report 2003 the Mississippi Department of Transportation Annual Report 2003
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Mississippi Department of Transportation Annual Report 2003 The Mississippi Department of Transportation Annual Report 2003 Our Mission . 2 Our Goals . 3 Section I - The Department Administration . 4 Organizational Chart . 5 Executive Summary . 6 Intermodal Transportation . 9 Making It Work . 15 Section II - Financial Report Section III - Maintenance Expenditures by County and Project Section IV - Construction Expenditures by County and Project Section V - Contracts Awarded by Commissioner District and Month MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION • ANNUAL REPORT 2003 Our Mission The Mississippi Department of Transportation is responsible for providing a safe intermodal transportation network that is planned, designed, constructed, and maintained in an effective, cost- efficient and environmentally- sensitive manner. 2 MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION • ANNUAL REPORT 2003 nvironmental Stewardship: Ensure that ETransportation System Development is Sensitive to Human and Natural Environment Concerns A sound transportation plan must address the relationship between the movement of people and goods and the impact upon the environment. Such a relationship is recognized within TEA-21 through a number of programs, including Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ). Additional Federal Acts to take into account include the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Preservation and protection of Mississippi’s human and natural environment and resources for the benefit of future Our Goals generations must be a goal of the current MULTIPLAN. ccessibility and Mobility: Improve Accessibility and conomic Development: Provide a Transportation AMobility for Mississippi’s People, Commerce and ESystem that Encourages and Supports Mississippi’s Industry Economic Development A greater proportion of Mississippians are within access to Transportation and the supporting infrastructure are the state’s highway system through the Four-Lane Highway essential to economic growth and development within Program and other initiatives. The state also enjoys a Mississippi. Not only does a superior transportation system relatively high level of travel mobility. Sufficient intermodal support and retain existing economic development interests accessibility and mobility are essential not only for passenger within the state, but it will help to make Mississippi travel, but freight movement as well in order to meet the attractive in the recruitment of new economic development. needs of the state’s industrial and commercial sectors. It is It is important that the transportation system not only serves important to insure access and mobility for all citizens, the state’s citizens and businesses, but also places the citizens regardless of physical limitations, social status, economic and businesses in a position that makes them competitive on level or geographic location. a national and global scale. afety: Ensure High Standards of Safety in the wareness, Education and Cooperative Processes: Create STransportation System AEffective Transportation Partnerships and Cooperative Processes that Enhance Awareness of the Needs and A core priority of MDOT is transportation safety across all modes. While Mississippi continues to rank high nationally Benefits of an Intermodal System in the rate of traffic fatalities on the state’s highway system, As every Mississippian either uses or is affected by the state’s improvement has been made through concentrated and transportation system, it is important that all citizens have coordinated efforts. Mississippians should be able to look to an awareness of both the benefits and needs of the system. A MDOT as the driving force behind the development and well-informed citizenry, public interest and stakeholder base, implementation of multimodal transportation safety and state legislature will lead to well-informed decisions and programs. Deficient facilities with respect to safety long-term fiscal planning. One of the most difficult aspects experience not only the effects of lost financial resources and of successful transportation planning efforts is balancing and time but, more importantly, loss of life. coordinating the multitude of interests involved in the aintenance and Preservation: Maintain and Preserve decision-making process. Through the development of education and cooperative processes with proper Mississippi’s Transportation System M communication on all levels, sufficient balance can be Mississippi has an extensive multimodal transportation attained. system, in which the state has made a substantial inance: Provide a Sound Financial Basis for the investment. If the system is to continue serving the state’s citizens and the investment is to be recognized, placing a FTransportation System high priority on the maintenance and preservation of the With the focus on the traveling public, the citizens of existing infrastructure is fundamental. To appropriate Mississippi rightly expect the financing they provide for the funding for future rehabilitative costs will directly affect state’s transportation system be managed and invested accessibility and mobility, not to mention safety, of the responsibly. A challenge for MDOT is to ensure that state’s passenger and commercial transportation system. adequate funding is available for the long-term health of the Further, the strain on resources brought about by an system. Multiple and varied funding sources must be inadequate maintenance system will have a direct effect on identified and managed responsibly so that the the economic development efforts of the state as well. transportation needs of Mississippi’s citizens and economic interests are met. 3 MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION • ANNUAL REPORT 2003 The Department as of June 30, 2003 Transportation Commission Division Directors Zack Stewart - Northern District Commissioner Wes Dean - State Traffic Engineer Dick Hall - Central District Commissioner Claiborne Barnwell - Environmental Engineer Wayne Brown - Southern District Commissioner Jimmy Brumfield - State Materials Engineer Linda Ferrell - Secretary to the Commission G. Michael Caraway - Procurement Director Administration Charles R. Carr - Public Transit Manager Larry L. “Butch” Brown - Executive Director Ray Balentine - State Planning Engineer Harry Lee James - Deputy Executive Director/ Randy Battey - Research Engineer Chief Engineer Donna M. Lum - Public Affairs Director Kevin Upchurch - Deputy Executive Director/ Mary McDonald - Human Resources Director Office of Administrative Services Dianne Gavin - Audit Director Marlin D. Collier - Director, John D. Vance - State Maintenance Engineer Office of Intermodal Planning Elton Jay - Aeronautics Director Willie Huff - Director, Billy W. Key - Contract Administration Engineer Office of Enforcement Roy Tipton - Assistant Attorney General J. Brooks Miller - State Aid Engineer Mitch Carr - Bridge Engineer Joy Portera - Assistant Chief Engineer, Operations Jim Majure - Right-of-Way Administrator Wendel T. Ruff - Assistant Chief Engineer, Brad Lewis - State Construction Engineer Preconstruction Jackie Duckworth - Programming Manager John M. Simpson - Chief Information Officer Mark Valentine - Financial Management Director John B. Pickering - Roadway Design Engineer Jimmy Davis - Budget Director Larry Raffield - Support Services Director Steven Edwards - Rails Engineer Jim Moak - Ports Director Danada McMurtry - Professional Dev. Director District Engineers William P. Swindoll, Tupelo, Miss. James Q. Dickerson, Batesville, Miss. Walter Lyons, Yazoo City, Miss. William R. May, Newton, Miss. Richard Lee, Hattiesburg, Miss. Darrell Broome, McComb, Miss. 4 MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION • ANNUAL REPORT 2003 Organization as of June 30, 2003 MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION EXECUTIVE SECRETARY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL COMMISSION AUDIT PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SYSTEMS CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICE OF OFFICE OF HIGHWAYS OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES OFFICE OF DEPUTY EXECUTIVE INTERMODAL DEPUTY EXECUTIVE ENFORCEMENT DIRECTOR/CHIEF ENGINEER PLANNING DIRECTOR/ADMINISTRATION HUMAN RESOURCES OPERATIONS PRECONSTRUCTION DISTRICT OFFICES PERMITS AERONAUTICS SCALES PROCUREMENT MAINTENANCE PLANNING BRIDGE CONSTRUC- TUPELO SUPPORT TION DESIGN WEIGHT SERVICES ENFORCEMENT PUBLIC TRANSIT ENVIRON- CONTRACT MENTAL/ BATESVILLE ADMIN. PROFESSIONAL LOCATION DEVELOP- MENT RAILS MAINTENANCE RIGHT OF WAY YAZOO CITY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT MATERIALS ROADWAY NEWTON PORTS DESIGN BUDGET RESEARCH HATTIESBURG PROGRAM- MING TRAFFIC McCOMB ENGINEERING 5 MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION • ANNUAL REPORT 2003 Executive Summary Bridge Replacement Program east in the total number of newly constructed bridges on the Federal-Aid System. The replacement of Mississippi’s deficient During fiscal year 2003, construction began on bridges is an ongoing process and one of MDOT’s the main-span portion of the new, four-lane Mis- top priorities. The Bridge Replacement and Reha- sissippi River Bridge on U.S. Highway 82 near bilitation Program provides funding assistance for Greenville, Mississippi. The new bridge will replace any bridge on a state designated road. Federal law the existing 60-year-old U.S. Highway 82 allows between 15 and 35 percent of the funds to Greenville bridge, which has a narrow two-lane be used on the local level. The total fiscal year 2003 roadway and is a serious hazard to navigation on apportionment was $48.4 million. the Mississippi River.