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As traffic and travel increase, so do demands for transportation improvements. Governments, planning and economic development organizations and transportation professionals simply do not have enough resources to keep up.

By partnering, together we leverage funds that separately would not have been enough to take on the project. This allows partners to hasten the time it takes to get a project to completion, resulting in accelerating these potential benefits...

Demands for transportation improvements have greatly outpaced the funds available to meet them. In response to this demand, the Missouri Department of Transportation has established various mechanisms for successful public/public and public/private...

Succession planning is using forward-thinking resources to identify and develop new leaders who can replace seasoned management members in the event they resign, retire or die. Having a plan and a trained individual ready to assume management roles...

On September 13, 2017, Director Patrick McKenna implemented the “Leadership in Action,” a peer-to-peer program that allowed MoDOT employees to recognize a co-worker based on that person’s leadership in living the department’s core values in areas of...

To effectively compose a job description, one must view it from the point of view of the job seeker. It must answer specific questions related to the performance of the job. But it has a unique quality in that it must have the power to both encourage...

The department intends for all employees to receive the necessary training to perform their jobs and/or prepare them for assuming increased responsibilities. This policy provides guidance for employee training and development in order to maintain a...

Facilities optimization provides a similar asset management process for MoDOT structures and facilities. In a process similar to STIP, MoDOT facilities are put into a rolling five-year budget. Long term improvement and that takes care of the large...

The challenge is to procure the optimum number of vehicles and replace them at appropriate intervals from a “total cost of ownership” perspective rather than repairing them beyond their useful asset lives. Utilization of optimization will deliver...

Design-Build (DB) is a project delivery method in which the design and construction services are contracted by a single entity known as the design-build contractor. It has been used in vertical construction for many years, but is relatively new to...