InfoHive – Transportation

• TxDOT Funding:

• Monitor any new & anticipated revenue appropriated to TXDOT
• Recommendations that address project prioritization & selection, effectiveness of staffing levels and project delivery methods.

• Vehicle Inspection System

• Evaluate the efficiency & effectiveness of the state’s Vehicle Inspection Program.
• Recommend how to compress/otherwise reduce the number of required inspections.

• Regional Mobility Authorities

• Review State Highway Fund grants & loans to Regional Mobility Authorities
• Recommend if additional oversight procedures are needed to ensure the RMA’s expenditures are a valid and accountable use of State Highway Funds.

• Panama Canal

• Study the demand placed on the state’s ports, roadways and railways resulting from the Panama Canal expansion
• Recommendations that ensure transportation infrastructure is adequate to accommodate increases in imports and exports.

• Driver Responsibility Program:

• Evaluate the necessity of the Driver Responsibility Program
• Recommendations for alternative methods of achieving the programs objectives.

• Oversize/Overweight Vehicle Regulations, Penalties and Fines:

• Review current state and federal regulations, penalties and fines related to oversize and overweight vehicles
• Recommendations to minimize impacts on the state’s roadways and bridges.

• Monitoring Charge:

• Monitor what happeneded during the 84th. Specifically:
• 1) Progress of the Texas Department of Transportation’s efforts to propose a plan to eliminate toll roads;
• 2) Removing eminent domain authority from private toll corporations;
• 3) Ending the issuing of any new debt from the Texas Mobility Fund & prohibiting future use of the TMF on toll projects;
• 4) The Sunset’s review of TXDOT.