2003 Annual Report available online

The Idaho Transportation Department's 2003 Annual Report, which captures the accomplishments of the past year and shares a vision for the future, is available to all department employees from the ITD Internet site.

"Transforming Transportation" includes messages from board chair Chuck Winder, department director Dave Ekern, and a review of major highway construction projects. It also includes information about the department's four emphasis areas (pavement condition, bridge improvement, congestion relief and safety), information about department funding, and a resource section with information about the transportation board and ITD's six districts.

Copies of the 32-page spiral-bound publication are available from the Public Affairs office, 334-8005. Captured as a PDF (portable document format) publication on the Internet, it also is available for downloading from the Public Affairs page on the Internet.

• News items will be available daily. In the past, a collection of news stories was delivered to ITD’ public affairs office every week from a clipping service. Hundreds clipped newspaper articles then were assembled into a booklet to be photocopied and distributed. Lag time between a story’s publication date and delivery of the booklets took up to two weeks.
• Access will be widespread. The news clippings, which often consisted of 80 pages or more, were distributed to a limited number of people and to ITD break rooms in each district. Now, anyone with access to the ITD Intranet will be able to see department news coverage.
• Searchable archives online. A customized database will allow people to search news items by publication source, dates, highway number, and more. Archives will be available going forward from the point the service goes online.