Massachusetts Department of Transportation
The Massachusetts was founded on 1 November 2009 Department of Transportation ( MassDOT short ) is an agency of the State of Massachusetts in the United States. She is responsible for the maintenance of roads, public transport, aviation and for the registration and registration of vehicles in the entire territory of the State.
- 2.1 Massachusetts Port Authority
- 2.2 Steamship Authority
Organization
The governor of Massachusetts appoints the Secretary of Transportation, established its position as a staff position and who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Authority. The governor also appoints seven members to the Board of Directors, the important decisions have to agree. The organizational structure of the Authority still has from other positions.
Department of Highways
The Highway Division was formed from the former independent authorities Massachusetts Highway Department and Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. She is responsible for all Interstate Highways and State Routes, which are on the territory of the State, in particular for the Massachusetts Turnpike. There are few exceptions to the places where parts of State Routes owned by neighboring communities and are managed by them.
The department is also responsible for collecting the fees of all toll bridges and tunnels. This includes the tunnel Sumner and Ted Williams, and since 1 January 2010, the Tobin Bridge. The MassDOT already manages in addition, most road bridges in the park of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR ); the other will also be transferred to the MassDOT until the end of 2014. Have already been transferred from the DCR to the MassDOT parts of Massachusetts Route 28 in Cambridge and Somerville, parts of the Lynnway in Lynn, Middlesex Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts portions of Route 203 in Jamaica Plain and Dorchester and the Columbia Road in South Boston.
Department for the registration of motor vehicles
The Registry of Motor Vehicles Division is the equivalent of the road authorities in most other U.S. states. It is responsible primarily for the registration of vehicles and for the issuance of driving licenses.
Department for public transport
In Massachusetts, all organizations in the public transport (LPT ) are independent. However, the Board of Directors of the MassDOT is identical to that of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA ), the largest provider of public transport connections in the metropolitan area of Greater Boston.
In addition to the MBTA, there are other 15 public transport companies, which are summarized under the term Regional Transit Agencies ( RTAs ). These buses operate mainly in the other parts of the state.
The MassDOT is the responsible regulatory and planning authority and is responsible not only for the road and for the regional rail passenger transport. Trains in the distance rail passenger transport operated by the federally-owned Amtrak, while cargo traffic are carried by rail from private companies.
Department of Aviation
The Aeronautics Division (formerly independently as Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission) is primarily responsible for the public financing of airports. Moreover, inspected and licensed them Airports and landing platforms, is responsible for the overall security at the airports and the flight safety and is responsible for the flight planning throughout the state. The MassDOT has, however, not even airports, instead, located in the state-owned airports by the independent Massachusetts Port Authority are controlled, their offices with the Aeronautics Division is divided.
For the nationwide flight regulation in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration is responsible. The control of passengers and baggage is the responsibility of the Transportation Security Administration, while the airport security is the responsibility of local authorities.
Further breakdowns
The Office of Civil Rights developed policies and programs relating to civil rights in the context of public transport, ensuring that the MassDOT operates within the currently identified by the U.S. federal government.
The Office for Transportation Planning, among other uses statistical analysis to predict the utilization of roads and railway lines and react. In addition, the department carries out various projects to improve transportation.
The Office of Real Estate and Asset Development is primarily responsible for the collection of revenue from state-owned land and buildings. To this end, among other things, lease and license agreements with private companies are closed.
Other state agencies for transportation in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Port Authority
The Massachusetts Port Authority ( Massport short ) is an independent authority, however, belongs to the Secretary of Transportation to the Board of Directors of the Massport. The Authority owns and operates the seaport Port of Boston and the Logan International Airport Airport, Hanscom Field, and since 2010 also of the Worcester Regional Airport.
Steamship Authority
The The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority (short Steamship Authority ) regulates the ferry to and from the islands of Martha 's Vineyard and Nantucket. The Authority also operates its own passenger, car and freight ferry, where it has a de facto monopoly in the field of car ferries. The passenger routes are, however, mainly in private hands.
History
In 2009, the then Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick approved the Chapter 25 of the Acts of 2009. With this law, comprehensive measures to reform the public transport in Massachusetts were put into effect, among other things, the amalgamation of all previous authorities of the transport system in the most 1. November 2009 newly founded Massachusetts Department of Transportation ROCHE.
As part of the measures adopted, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and the Massachusetts Highway Department in the new Highway Division of MassDOT were integrated and transferred responsibility for the Tobin Bridge from Massport and the ownership of the bridges from the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Furthermore, the planning and oversight functions of the Executive Office of Transportation and the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission and the Registry of Motor Vehicles were transferred to the MassDOT. The board of directors of the MBTA was merged with that of the MassDOT, and finally the Advisory Board of the MBTA budget veto was withdrawn.
Financing by the State
The public transport system in Massachusetts is funded by the following items:
- Perennial base funding on a " transportation bill" which provides, among other funds from government revenue through taxes on motor fuels
- One-time funding for 84 projects through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- One-time funding for the Accelerated Bridge Program for the years 2009-2016
- Specially provided for the MBTA funding which consist of shares in state sales tax and income from ticket sales and parking fees
- Revenues of the Regional Transit Authorities
- Revenue from tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike, as well as bridges and tunnels
- Revenue from parking and other charges in the vicinity of the airport are fed to the Massport
- Fees for the registration of motor vehicles
For 2012, expenditure of 1.14 billion U.S. dollars for public transport were planned.
The Accelerated Bridge Program
As part of the set by the then Governor Deval Patrick in August 2008 in force comprehensive 3 billion U.S. dollars Accelerated Bridge Program about 200 bridges throughout the state will be replaced by new buildings as well as between 300 and 500 other bridges repaired. The program was launched a year after the collapse of a bridge of I-35 to life after the incident had brought the bridges of the state in the focus of attention and had to be classified as dilapidated or structurally damaged more than 500 bridges.
The funds of the program, among others, the following actions are performed: