Washington State Department of Transportation plans, designs, and constructs physical improvements to the highways in Washington. It constructs, maintains, and regulates the use of the state's transportation infrastructure, including roadways, vehicular bridges, rail lines, state highways, state ferries, and state airports. The company develops technology systems to transfer freight information; facilitate inspections; and monitor commercial vehicles, and their drivers and cargos. It operates a traffic management center in Bellingham, which enables monitoring and control of traffic surveillance cameras and traveler information systems at the border in the United States. It serves government agencies and motor carriers in the United States. The company was founded in 1905 and is based in Olympia, Washington.