---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 1.84"
title: "49"
number: "1.84"
heading: "The Federal Highway Administration."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/1.84"
---

# §1.84. The Federal Highway Administration.


Is responsible for:

- (a) Improving mobility on our Nation's highways through national leadership, innovation, and program delivery.
- (b) Developing safety strategies using a data-driven, systematic approach to address safety for motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians from engineering, education, enforcement, and emergency medical services perspectives and coordinating with FMCSA and NHTSA as appropriate.
- (c) **Planning, in cooperation with the States, the nation's highway system.**
- (d) Improving, in cooperation with the States (via the provision of grants), infrastructure condition, safety, mobility and freight movement roads on the National Highway System, including the Interstate System and to other federal-aid roads and other surface transportation infrastructure.
- (e) Identifying and deploying innovation aimed at shortening project delivery, enhancing the safety of our roadways, and protecting the environment.
- (f) Surveying and constructing Federal lands transportation facilities, Federal lands access transportation facilities, tribal transportation facilities, defense highways and access roads, and parkways and roads in national parks and other federally-administered areas.
- (g) Developing and administering uniform State standards for highway safety programs with respect to identification and surveillance of crash locations; highway design, construction, and maintenance, including context sensitive solutions, highway-related aspects of pedestrian safety, and traffic control devices.
- (h) Administering the Department's National Bridge Inspection Standards and the National Tunnel Inspection Standards to ensure the Nation has safe, well-maintained bridges and tunnels for use by the traveling public.
- (i) In coordination with NHTSA, RITA, and FMCSA, conducting vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure research.
- (j) Managing TIFIA funds, [23 U.S.C. 601-609](/usc/23/601-609.md), in conjunction with the TIFIA Joint Program Office, including managing accounting and budgeting activities, and procuring any necessary financial or technical support services for the TIFIA program.
- (k) Maximizing the positive impacts on the U.S. economy by encouraging domestic manufacturing on highway projects through the enforcement of Buy America provisions.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 19819, Apr. 5, 2016, unless otherwise noted.