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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is a decentralized agency charged with the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of public transportation in the state of Florida. [1] The department was formed in 1969. It absorbed the powers of the State Road Department (SRD). The current Secretary of Transportation is Jared W. Perdue.
The Interstate Highways in the state of Florida are owned and maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). [3] There are four primary interstate highways and eight auxiliary highways, with a ninth proposed, totaling 1,497.58 miles (2,410.12 km) interstate miles in Florida.
Extract of the 2023 Annual Average Daily Traffic Count for Miami, Florida. Annual average daily traffic (AADT) is a measure used primarily in transportation planning, transportation engineering and retail location selection. Traditionally, it is the total volume of vehicle traffic of a highway or road for a year divided by 365 days. AADT is a ...
In 1969, the State Road Department was superseded by Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). In 1977, House Bill 803 (HB 803), Chapter 77-165 in the Laws of Florida, was passed in the Florida Legislature. This transportation policy act eliminated the secondary roads, roads that consisted of county roads that were maintained by the state.
The Florida Department of Transportation was preparing to build a high-speed rail between Tampa, Lakeland, and Orlando. This would have been the first phase of the Florida High Speed Rail system. Soil work began in July 2010 with the federal government expecting full construction to begin in 2011.
US 1 in Florida City: Florida's Turnpike (SR 91) in Miramar: 47.856 77.017 carries Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike: SR 822: US 441 in Hollywood: SR A1A in Hollywood: 5.792 9.321 SR 823: US 27 in Hialeah: I-595 / SR 84 (SR 862) in Davie: 20.210 32.525 SR 824: SR 817 in Miramar / Pembroke Pines: US 1 in Hallandale Beach / Hollywood: 6.547
The Florida Department of Transportation was created in July 1969, with the Florida State Turnpike Authority becoming a part of the new FDOT. [ 14 ] On September 1, 1971, the Turnpike switched from a sequential exit numbering system to a hybrid numbering system, where adjacent exit numbers differed by 4 south of SR 60 (exit 60 at the time) and ...
The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (HEFT), designated as unsigned State Road 821 (SR 821), is the southern extension of Florida's Turnpike, a controlled-access toll road in the U.S. state of Florida maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE). Spanning approximately 48 miles (77 km) along a north–south axis, it supplements ...