NEW CALTRANS LEADERS SEEK BETTER WAY OF DOING BUSINESS

The California Dept. of Transportation (Caltrans), under a new leadership, is heading in a direction which is focused on reducing red tape, increasing communication, promoting new seismic codes, and examining alternative project delivery methods. This article notes the appointment of a new director, chief engineer, and deputy director to an agency that has been asked to streamline operations and promote more public private partnerships. A list of priorities for the new administration includes fulfilling a re-bid of the new San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridge span, promoting better communications between Caltrans and local agencies, implementing probability-based load and resistance design codes for bridges, transitioning from the metric system back to English, and fostering the successful use of design- build and design sequencing methods.

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• Corporate Authors:

  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

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• Authors:
  • Cho, A
• Publication Date: 2005-3-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 13
• Serial:
  • ENR
  • Volume: 254
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Decentralization; Streamlining; Transportation departments
• Identifier Terms: California Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00988259
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 1 2005 12:00AM