District Department of Transportation [SEP] inception
work, severe understaffing, and excessive lead times for the letting and implementing of design and construction contracts. These issues led to significant backlogs in maintenance and construction, and hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds were unexpended.
In response to the impending management crisis in its transportation division, in May 2002 the Council of the District of Columbia passed the "District Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002" (D.C. Law 14-137), which separated the Division of Transportation from the Department of Public Works and created
Western Transportation Institute
The Western Transportation Institute (WTI) is a center of rural transportation research and education, located in the College of Engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. The WTI was founded in 1994 as a collaboration between Montana State University, the Montana Department of Transportation, and the California Department of Transportation, and is devoted to the improvement of transportation and travel in rural America.
The WTI has been affiliated with the engineering department at Montana State University since its inception, and the Institute has professional