Goal 2: Improve resiliency to flooding, freezing, snowdrifiting, and other natural disasters Implementation Strategy Implement mitigation techniques that include repairs, realignments, or raises to highways that regularly flood. Construct anti-drifting measures that include ditch design and structural/living snow fences. Allow for co-location of underground electric and broadband to improve utility resiliency.
Timeline: Immediate to Emerging Difficulty: Challenging Infrastructure Affected:
Measurable Outcome Decrease in road closures due to natural weather events.
Goal 3: Prepare for the implementation of automated vehicles and mobility as a service.
Timeline: Emerging to Future Difficulty: Moderate to Difficult Infrastructure Affected:
Implementation Strategy Provide technological infrastructure that will be required to support automated vehicles and mobility services.
Measurable Outcome Number of automated vehicles on South Dakota roadways and mobility service coverage.
Goal 4: Develop state, county, and local roads to support transit, tourism, and active transportation such as walking, biking, and rolling. Implementation Strategy Design roads to include infrastructure that supports active transportation initiatives, facilitates transit, and services tourism. Measurable Outcome Increase in miles of on- and off-road trails and bike lanes. Increased number of flashing beacons and HAWK systems. Increased number of scenic routes, overlooks, and rest areas. Maintain a pedestrian count inventory and monitor trends.
Timeline: Immediate Difficulty: Moderate Infrastructure Affected:
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South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development
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