Our guiding principles: we will serve, innovate and communicate with purpose; we will be productive, lean, efficient and effective; we will utilize the public resources entrusted to us by satisfying the State's transportation needs; we will be the stndard of excellence for winter maintenance; we will create a working environment based on trust and mutual respect; we will value the diversity of all ODOT people and we will work together - one team: The Ohio Department of Transportation.