PITTSBURGH, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Secretary of
Transportation Bradley L. Mallory and Deputy Secretary Robert C. Wonderling
will join officials of the Freedom School District to kick-off a pilot project
under PennDOT's Agile Maintenance Enterprise Program which will provide
$20,000 worth of office space to PennDOT and $6,000 worth of computers to the
Freedom School District.
The Agility Program is PennDOT's implementation of a current "common
sense" approach to doing business where short-term relationships and
partnerships are created for a single project that is mutually beneficial for
each partner.
On any road project a contractor provides a field office, usually a
trailer, at an average cost of $20,000 along with about $6,000 of computer
equipment for project management. When plans were announced for a
$1.5 million resurfacing of 7.6 miles of roads at 11 locations in Beaver
County the opportunity to form an "Agile Enterprise" presented itself.
The Freedom School District will allow the Department of Transportation to
use vacant classrooms in the Unionville School for a project field office in
exchange for the computer equipment used for the project. The exchange
results in PennDOT saving the $20,000 cost of a field office and the school
district saving the $6,000 cost of a state-of-the-art computer system.
This pilot is the first in the state and if successful could be exported
to every PennDOT road and bridge project in the Commonwealth. The recent
3.5 cents per gallon revenue increase to the roadway trust fund will develop
resurfacing projects on 312 miles of roads in the Western Pennsylvania over
the next two years applying this exchange of office space for computers on
those projects will result in considerable savings to taxpayers which can be
reinvested in more work to improve riding surfaces.
This initiative is one of many "Agility Programs" Secretary Mallory is
having his staff develop across the state in each of the 11 PennDOT
Engineering Districts. These innovative service improvements and cost saving
efforts are part of Governor Ridge's Moving Pennsylvania Forward Program.
SOURCE Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
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CONTACT:
Dick Skrinjar, 412-429-5010, or Connie
Parker, 412-429-5011, both of the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation
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