摘要: |
Improving motor carrier and highway safety is the number one priority for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). On February 1, 1999, under a broad restructuring initiative at FHWA headquarters, the Office of Motor Carriers and Office of Highway Safety joined together as a core business unit: the Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety (OMCHS). As part of this commitment to improving safety, FHWA in mid-1998 engaged nationally known futurist Glen Hiemstra for a year-long venture in preferred future planning. FHWA's goal is to identify the actions it must take now and in the future to create the future it desires. Hiemstra conducts the process in two phases: scenario-building conferences and strategic implementation. During the conferences, participants fleshed out features of a preferred future federal role for motor carrier and highway safety and drew up a short list of critical strategic issues that OMCHS programs will need to address beyond 2001. During the strategic planning phase, which is expected to begin in the spring of 1999, OMCHS officials will boil down the alternative preferred scenarios into a practicable, customer-driven strategic plan. They will then identify specific, nuts-and-bolts strategies for implementing the plan. |