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2024 Highway Construction
Mission Statement The mission of the Division of Highways is to plan, design, construct and maintain a safe highway system with a diverse and professional work force, within available resources, and to the highest nationwide standards for all of the citizens of Illinois.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. To preserve and modernize the Illinois highway system to make it safe and efficient for motorists.
    1. To utilize available resources to ensure that at least 82% of Illinois state highways and 93% of state bridges are in acceptable condition or better
    2. To use cost-efficient, effective and creative procedures and technologies to design and construct high-quality roads and bridges that will last longer and serve users satisfactorily.
    3. To provide professional, courteous and service-oriented performance by coordinating with state, regional and local stakeholders, communicating better with highway users, and annually seeking feedback to measure motorist satisfaction and further improve service.
    4. To coordinate with trade associations to develop better standards and policies for safe, cost-effective roads and bridges.
    5. To place under contract at least 85% of the annual construction program by the end of the program year.
  2. To improve highway infrastructure to help communities and regions provide for economic prosperity and jobs.
    1. To coordinate with elected officials, the public, local governments and agencies in programming and developing improvements by: 1) Helping to research, understand and outline area priorities; 2) Helping to evaluate public opinion on target priorities; 3) Helping to seek and develop funding for local and regional priorities.
Source of Funds Road Fund, Motor Fuel Tax Fund, Grade Crossing Protection Fund, Transportation Bond, Series A Fund, Transportation Bond Series D Fund, State Construction Account Fund, Build Illinois Fund Statutory Authority 605 ILCS 5/1-101; 30 ILCS 500
Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2024 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2023 Actual Fiscal Year 2022 Actual
Input Indicators
Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 0.0 $ 0.0 $ 0.0 $ 0.0 $ 0.0
Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 5,615,900.7 $ 4,874,852.6 $ 5,115,085.3 $ 4,630,300.2 $ 4,120,240.7
Average monthly full-time equivalents 2,487.0 2,393.0 2,606.0 2,396.0 2,554.0
Output Indicators
Highway safety improvements accomplished (a) 152.0 163.0 187.0 88.0 135.0
Miles of pavement maintained/improved 693.0 739.0 686.0 551.0 1,032
Number of bridges maintained/improved 112.0 103.0 152.0 61.0 75.0
Percentage of number of state construction projects accomplished (For The Record) 83.90% 83.90% 89.40% 86.40% 90.00%
Outcome Indicators
Percentage of Illinois interstate National Highway System (NHS) bridges in an acceptable maintenance condition 90.00% 90.00% 92.00% 91.00% 87.00%
Percentage of Illinois non-interstate NHS bridges in an acceptable maintenance condition 89.00% 89.00% 89.00% 87.00% 86.00%
Percentage of Illinois marked non-NHS bridges in an acceptable maintenance condition 91.00% 89.00% 87.00% 89.00% 89.00%
Percentage of Illinois unmarked non-NHS bridges in an acceptable maintenance condition 86.00% 85.00% 83.00% 85.00% 86.00%
Percentage of State Road Interstates in an acceptable condition (based on Condition Rating Survey- CRS) (b) 87.00% 87.00% 90.00% 87.00% 86.00%
Percentage of non-Interstate NHS in an acceptable condition (based on CRS) (b) 78.00% 80.00% 82.00% 81.00% 82.00%
Percentage of non-NHS Marked in an acceptable condition (based on CRS) (b) 66.00% 67.00% 67.00% 67.00% 69.00%
Percentage of non-NHS Unmarked in an acceptable condition (based on CRS) (b) 61.00% 65.00% 63.00% 65.00% 68.00%
Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness Indicators
Construction investment per lane mile of state-controlled road; 2021 Lanes miles maintained by IDOT 42,193 42,193 42,175 42,175 42,158
Construction investment per 1,000 Illinois vehicle miles traveled (VMT); Total state maintained VMT in billion miles 103.0 103.0 103.9 103.9 56.2
Footnotes
IDOT had 4 contracts with multiple highway safety improvements that were deferred from fiscal year 2023 to fiscal year 2024. Therefore, causing the variance listed above. 2024 data is estimated because of delays due to the data collection vendor breaching their contract.

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