Start Date: TBD
End Date: March 2019
Project Completed
Researcher: Benjamin R. Sperry, Ph.D., P.E., Blake Staley, Issam Khoury, Ph.D., P.E., Roger Green, P.E., Andrew Russ of Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment, Ohio University and William C. Lozier, P.E., P.S., TEC Engineering Inc.
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Ohio's local public agencies (LPAs) administer an average of $335 million of Federal-aid projects annually through the ODOT local-let program. ODOT has made significant strides to improve the efficiency of its Federal-aid program delivery process for LPA-administered projects in recent years. The objective of this research was to undertake a review of ODOT's local-let program requirements in the areas of real estate/right-of-way, construction contract administration, and finance to determine if any additional process streamlining could be achieved. This review found that a vast majority of activities LPAs are required to perform as part of Federal-aid project administration were consistent with applicable Federal requirements. Outreach to Ohio's LPAs and other State DOTs yielded valuable insight on best practices and potential strategies for streamlining the administration of Federal-aid projects by Ohio's LPAs at both the project and program level. Eight recommendations for streamlining are presented; implementation of these recommendations is expected to result in improvements to the delivery of ODOT's local-let program, including more efficient use of ODOT and LPA resources, cost and time savings for project delivery, and greater clarity on program performance.