MDTA’s Sustainability Approach The MDTA is committed to sustainable development, environmental compliance, stewardship, and continuous improvement in environmental performance. The MDTA’s Environmental Policy Statement on its website provides further details on its commitment to sustainability. The MDTA’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) leads oversight of matters related to sustainability and risk. The MDTA’s CFO partners closely with the MDTA’s Executive Director and Chief Officers, who oversee specific sustainability topics that fall under their organizational domains. Working together, the CFO and Chief Officers collaborate across departments to develop and implement programs and practices to continuously improve the MDTA’s governance, risk, and impact practices and policies. The MDTA’s sustainability practices also support continuity and accountability across the agency's functions and leadership. Report Topics and Definitions In 2024, the MDTA conducted an in-depth analysis of governance, risk, and impact topics relevant to public transportation agencies to inform development of our reporting. The topics included in this report are informed by that analysis and have been reviewed and approved by MDTA leadership, and remain the same for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 2025). The MDTA will continue to evaluate opportunities and trends to mature its reporting over time.
Topics and Definitions
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The ability of individuals to access and utilize products and services. For the MDTA, this involves the accessibility of roadways and facilities for those who need to use the MDTA’s infrastructure, as well as accessibility to key toll services, documents, and reports produced by the agency. The physical, chemical, biological, radioactive (including source material, special nuclear material, and byproduct material) substances or matter that are emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air. For the MDTA, the main source is likely construction activities and roadways. The variety of ecosystems (natural capital) and species in a particular habitat. Ecosystems are essential to human well-being because they deliver services that sustain our economies and societies. For the MDTA, this includes biodiversity and ecosystems in vegetated areas near roads, facilities, and the organization’s effect on these. The policies, programs, and oversight functions that promote equal opportunity, prevent discrimination, ensure accessibility, and support workforce inclusion initiatives across MDTA programs, employment, services, activities, and contracting. For the MDTA, this includes compliance with applicable federal and state civil rights and nondiscrimination requirements; equal employment opportunity; reasonable accommodation and accessibility; Title VI and Title VII administration; socioeconomic program oversight; and initiatives that promote respect, inclusion, belonging, and meaningful access. The ability to make changes in processes, practices, and structures to moderate potential damages from hazards and stresses, including risks associated with climate change (both physical and transition). For the MDTA, this means maintaining resiliency to the impacts of extreme weather events and climate change as well as transition risks. The MDTA’s customers and community are one and the same; as a public agency, the MDTA seeks to serve its community. As a result, engagement with users of toll roads and facilities, as well as initiatives undertaken for the purpose of improving customer welfare, also serve to engage the MDTA’s community. The protection of data and information, often involving protection against hackers or cyber criminals. Privacy involves an individual’s right to manage their personal information, and security is the protection of this information.
Accessibility
Air Pollutants
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
MDTA BY THE NUMBERS View MDTA’s financial statements and annual reports.
Civil Rights and Fair Practices
$9.5B VALUE OF ASSETS 1
727.4 MILES OF ROADWAY & BRIDGE DECK 2
9 NUMBER OF TOLL FACILITIES 3
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
$585.9M OPERATING BUDGET & DEBT SERVICE 4
1,697 TOTAL EMPLOYEES 5
Customer and Community Engagement
$1.2B INVESTMENTS MANAGED 6
1 Current and noncurrent assets as of June 30, 2025. 2 Lane miles. 3 JFK Memorial Highway and the I-95 Express Toll Lanes are accounted for as two separate facilities in MDTA’s financial reporting. 4 FY 2025 operating budget and debt service ($ 441.4M Operating budget approved by the MDTA Board; $144.5M annual debt service). 5 As of June 30, 2025. 6 Fair value as of June 30, 2025.
Cybersecurity, Privacy and Digitization
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Governance, Risk, and Impact Report
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Governance, Risk, and Impact Report
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