Overview

The Federal Highway Administration is responsible for ensuring the safety, efficiency, and economy of the Nation's highway transportation system. The Federal Highway Administration oversees all phases of highway policy, planning, research, design, operations, construction, and maintenance. There are two principal programs that accomplish this vital task.

The Federal Aid Highway Program offices, in cooperation with the State Departments of Transportation, administer the nation's comprehensive highway system.

The Federal Lands Highway Program, as an adjunct to the Federal-Aid Highway Program, covers highway programs in cooperation with Federal land managing agencies. It provides transportation engineering services for planning, design, construction, and rehabilitation of the highways and bridges providing access to federally owned lands. The Federal Lands Highway organization also provides training, technology, deployment, engineering services, and products to other customers.

The FHWA administers the Federal Lands Highway Program, including survey, design and construction of forest highway system roads, parkways and park roads, Indian reservation roads, defense access roads, and other Federal lands roads.

The FHWA, through cooperative agreements with Federal land managing agencies such as the National Park Service, Forest Service, Military Traffic Management Command, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, administers a coordinated Federal lands-program consisting of forest highways, public lands highways, park roads and parkways, refuge roads, and Indian reservation roads. This program provides funding for more than 90,000 miles of federally owned and public authority-owned roads which serve Federal lands. The Agency's Federal Lands Highway Office provides program coordination, administration and design,-and construction engineering assistance and directs the conduct of transportation planning and engineering studies.

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