Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Commonwealth Keystone Building, which has the headquarters of the agency[1]
Agency overview
FormedJuly 1, 1970
(54 years ago) (1970-07-01)
Preceding agencies
  • Department of Highways
  • Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Traffic Safety
  • Mass Transit Division
  • Aeronautics Commission
  • Department of Revenue (oversaw licensing, registration and inspection of motor vehicles)
JurisdictionCommonwealth of Pennsylvania
Headquarters5th Floor, Commonwealth Keystone Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]
40°15′59″N 76°53′1″W / 40.26639°N 76.88361°W / 40.26639; -76.88361
Employees~12,000
Annual budget$9.1 billion
Agency executive
Websitewww.penndot.gov

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) oversees transportation issues in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The administrator of PennDOT is the Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation, Michael B. Carroll. PennDOT supports nearly 40,000 miles (64,000 km) of state roads and highways, about 25,000 bridges, and new roadway construction with the exception of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.[2]

Other modes of transportation supervised or supported by PennDOT include aviation, rail traffic, mass transit, intrastate highway shipping traffic, motor vehicle safety and licensing, and driver licensing. PennDOT supports the Ports of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Erie. The department's current budget is approximately $3.8 billion in federal and state funds. The state budget is supported by motor vehicle fuel taxes, which are dedicated solely to transportation-related state expenditures.

In recent years, PennDOT has focused on intermodal transportation, which is an attempt to enhance commerce and public transportation. PennDOT employs approximately 11,000 people.

PennDOT has extensive traffic cameras set up throughout the state's major cities, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and the state capital of Harrisburg, In Wilkes-Barre, cameras are fed through to a television channel for Service Electric cable customers in the city and its suburbs. Unlike speed cameras, these cameras are primarily installed for ITS purposes, and not for law enforcement.

  1. ^ a b "Contact Us". Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 26, 2023. Central Office PA Department of Transportation Keystone Building 400 North St., Fifth Floor Harrisburg, PA 17120
  2. ^ "About Us". Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Retrieved May 25, 2023.