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History and background of the Department of Transportation

DOTr is a world class organization, providing integrated transport, connecting people, islands,
families, communities and the nation with the rest of the world, and constantly responding for
environmentally sustainable and global competitive transport.

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) was formally formed by Minister
José P. Dans Jr. on July 28, 1979 in accordance with Executive Order No. 546. During this time
major projects such as Light Rail Transit System, Computer-Controlled Traffic Lights System,
Manila International Airport, renamed to Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Central Post
Offices in Makati, Caloocan, Quezon City, and San Juan were implemented. The number of
buses has also increased to 1,000 new buses in Metro Manila. The Philippine National Railways
and the Metro Manila Transit Corporation were also improved during this period.

In 1986 after Edsa People Power, Cory Aquino appointed Congressman Hernando B. Pérez as
the new MOTC minister.

In accordance with Executive Order Nos. 125, and 125-A. has made the MOTC a government
department under the leadership of new minister Rainerio O. Reyes.

Under President Ramos, he allowed landlines and cellular phone services in the new DOTC
program.

In 2016, DOTC was simplified as DOTr because its communication agency was transferred to
DICT.

In 2017, from the headquarters and Columbia Tower in Mandaluyong the main operation of the
agency was moved to Clark, Mabalacat, Pampanga.

Currently, the DOTr is expected to be able to do many projects under President Duterte who
agreed to have PHP 3.6T worth of public infrastructure projects being rolled out from 2018 to
2022.
Goals, objectives, & advocates as national agency

The Department of Transportation is an agency buddy of the executive branch of the Philippine
Government that has a major goal of handling and creating primary policies planning,
programming, implementing actions and projects for the development and regulation of a
systematic and organized transportation system within the country. It's objective is to basically
help the country and the Filipino citizen in having a fast, safe, reliable and efficient
transportation services. According to their mission, they seek to provide the country a effective
and secure transportation system that can actually help the country in having a efficient
transportation services. Also, their objective is to make such policies and actions that will be
globally competitive and can easily adapt and response to the changes in times. Their primary
goal and objective is that by 2030, they will make sure that the Department of Transportation
will become a world class organization that provides a high quality of transport that connects the
people and the communities of the whole nation and provide extensive adaptation to any changes
that might happen in the global competitive transport.

The role of the DOTr in Philippine Administration

According to the Department of Transportation agency’s mandate and functions, its part is to be
an entity of the executive branch of the administration on promoting, development and regulation
of the coordinated system of transportation; they are accountable for policy formulation,
International cooperation for the usefulness and more improvement of the country’ industry and
infrastructural developments. This agency of the government is also accountable for furnishing
efficient, fast, safe, and reliable transportation and communications assistance for the Philippine
administration and its citizens. Its part within the Philippine administration is to help in building
developments that will increase facilities or transference for public movements, goods, and other
central necessities that might support to make an edge for the country's economic progress.