Intended Public Benefits of Agency's Strategic Plan
Below are links, by year, to Excel documents that include the agency's strategic plan and intended public benefit of the goals and objectives in the plan. Also included are the intended public benefits for the agency's current strategic plan. This information was provided by the agency in its Annual Restructuring Report, Program Evaluation, Request for Information, or Accountability Report.
In the Annual Restructuring Report, the agency was asked to provide information about the outcome or intended public benefit of each agency goal and objective. This is the public benefit provided, or harm prevented, by accomplishment of the objective and goal.
Current Intended Public Benefits (2015-16)
Output: SCDOT is taking a data-driven approach to diagnose crashes and identify appropriate countermeasures, which include four components-engineering, education, enforcement and emergency response. SCDOT will deploy highway safety and roadway construction funds to address engineering related countermeasures. Outcome: Accelerate the progress in reducing fatalities and serious injuries. Also, reduce the number of equipment accidents and injuries in the workplace. (Goal 1)
Output: In order to accelerate the progress in reducing fatalities and serious injuries, South Carolina is taking a data-driven approach to diagnose crashes and identify appropriate countermeasures. Countermeasures include four components - engineering, education, enforcement and emergency response, and SCDOT will deploy highway safety and roadway construction funds to address the engineering-related countermeasures. Outcome: A continuing reduction of fatalities and serious injuries. (Objective 1.1)
Output: Continued emphasis on workplace safety through information sharing and enforcement of safety standards and practices. Outcome: A continuing reduction of work =place injuries and lost work hours. (Objective 1.2.1)
Output: A risk-based asset management approach will enable SCDOT to optimize preservation investments by selecting the right treatments at the right time for the right projects that will yield the greatest benefit at the lowest cost. A tiered, risk based preservation strategy will direct preservation investments to the most heavily used and critical facilities. Outcome: A strategy of continuous upkeep to prevent deterioration of good pavements, targeting a portion of fair pavements to bring them up to good condition and addressing some of the most critical facilities needing reconstruction or replacement. In the end, stop the declining trend of pavement deterioration that has been taking place since 2008. (Goal 2)
Output: A tiered, risk-based preservation strategy will direct preservation investments to the most heavily used and critical facilities. Outcome: A risk-based asset management approach will enable SCDOT to optimize preservation investments by selecting the right treatments at the right time for the right projects that will yield the greatest benefit at the lowest cost. (Objective 2.1.1)
Output: Keeping South Carolina's bridges and pavement in good condition is the most effective way to extend the life of the transportation system. The life of pavements and bridges can be extended with a regular schedule of upkeep to prevent deterioration. Outcome: Regular preservation and maintenance investments such as repairing pavement cracks and resurfacing or sealing bridge decks and painting steel girders extends the life of the asset, delaying the need for more costly repairs and reconstruction. (Objective 2.2.1)
Output: Transit asset management practices can provide information to assist in prioritizing investments to optimize limited funding. Outcome: Transit asset inventories with condition data and asset replacement models can be effective in implementing more cost-effective asset replacement investment strategies. (Objective 2.3.1)
Output: SCDOT will invest in strategies to extract as much capacity out of the existing system as possible. Operational improvements such as synchronized traffic signalization, highway service patrols or incident clearance protocols can add capacity by allowing greater throughput. Strategies to improve intermodal connections and to provide modal options in some areas and corridors can provide freight and passenger mobility alternatives, which also can result in greater throughput in some locations and corridors. Outcome: Access to jobs, schools and services for daily living, and providing choices in how people and goods may move are essential to maintaining dynamic communities and robust quality of life in today's competitive economic climate. (Goal 3)
Output: There will continue to be more motorists on SC highways in the years and decades ahead requiring increased Traffic Management System camera coverage of strategic locations. Outcome: Enhance mobility with increased camera coverage. (Objective 3.1.1)
Output: Prepared to handle a variety of situations, SCDOT SHEP responders make minor repairs to disabled vehicles and, assists with traffic control and traffic incident management. Outcome: Improved safety for the motoring public and optimizing mobility. (Objective 3.1.2)
Output: New or improved transit systems or intercity passenger rail can enhance mobility and access by providing alternative transportation services. Outcome: Improving mobility goes beyond addressing congestion. Access to jobs, schools and services for daily living, and providing choices in how people and goods may move are essential to maintaining dynamic communities and robust quality of life in today's competitive economic climate. (Objective 3.2.1)
Output: Strategies to improve intermodal connections and to provide modal options in some areas and corridors can provide freight and passenger mobility alternatives. Outcome: Help offset increase congestion associated with significantly increasing population growth. (Objective 3.3.1)
Output: New or improved transit systems or intercity passenger rail can enhance mobility and access by providing alternative transportation services. Outcome: SCDOT will invest in strategies to extract as much capacity out of the existing system as possible. Operational improvements such as synchronized traffic signalization, highway service patrols or incident clearance protocols can add capacity by allowing greater throughput. Strategies to improve intermodal connections and to provide modal options in some areas and corridors can provide freight and passenger mobility alternatives, which also can result in greater throughput in some locations and corridors. (Objective 3.4.1)
Output: A well-functioning, efficient transportation system is essential to sustaining the manufacturing renaissance and to ensuring continued economic development opportunities in all areas of the state. SC, strategically located along the southeastern coast, is crisscrossed by five interstate highways, offering excellent east-west and north-south access. The State Ports Authority opened an inland port at Greer extending the port's reach 212 miles inland and is preparing to accommodate the new post-panamax container ships with deepening of the Charleston Port's harbor to 50 feet. Palmetto Railway is embarking on the construction of an intermodal rail facility at the Port to coincide with the arrival of the new, mega container ships in 2019. Four primary commercial airports, several reliever airports and general aviation facilities across the state provide excellent passenger and freight air service. Preservation and modernization of SC's aging highway and bridge system is essential to keep pace with our growing economy. Outcome: SC led the southeast out of the most recent recession with exceptional growth in manufacturing. A business-friendly climate, talented workforce and attractive quality of life continue to attract investment and create well-paying jobs. The SC Department of Commerce reports that in 2013 the state recruited 127 new manufacturing and service industries, bringing more than $5 billion dollars in capital investment and more than 15,000 new jobs, one-quarter of which are located in rural areas. The transportation system not only enables economic development but also ensures maintenance of a vibrant SC transportation engineering and construction industry. (Goal 4)
Output: Strategies to improve intermodal connections and to provide modal options in some areas and corridors can provide freight and passenger mobility alternatives, which also can result in greater throughput in some locations and corridors. Outcome: Access to jobs, schools and services for daily living, and providing choices in how people and goods may move are essential to maintaining dynamic communities and robust quality of life in today's competitive economic climate. (Objective 4.1.1)
Output: Strategies to increase participation by minority, women, and small-owned businesses. Outcome: A transportation system that not only enables economic development, but also ensures maintenance of a vibrant South Carolina transportation engineering and construction industry with the support of small, minority and disadvantaged business development. (Objective 4.2.1)
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