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Institutional, Organizational, and Process
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L17 TSMO Talking Points

"Transportation Systems Management and Operations Talking Points" are for a nontransportation professional to use with a nontransportation audience. To create messages for peer-to-peer communication or a transportation decision maker, please refer to the Business Case Primer (see Related Artifact

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L17 TSMO Press Release-Editorial

The draft editorial below gives you a framework to use for writing your own article for your local daily or weekly newspaper. It can also serve as a framework for public remarks. It is written as an educational editorial that can easily for tailored to resonate with your audience. Its purpose is

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Presentation

Systems Engineering

Presentation on systems engineering prepared for the SHRP2 Project L36 Regional Operations Forums pilots.

The Regional Operations Forums are a new total-immersion week-long training activity that offers transportation agency leaders the opportunity to learn about leadership a

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Best Practice

Guide to Improving Capability for Systems Operations and Management

The Guide examines the way transportation agencies should be organized to successfully execute operations programs that improve travel time reliability. After the Guide was submitted for publication, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) converted the SHR

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Research

Institutional Architectures to Improve Systems Operations and Management

Institutional Architectures to Support Operational Strategies combines both research and guidance relating to the institutional preconditions within state DOTs for effective management of non-recurring congestion. The objective of the project is to identify the preconditions to “institutionalizin

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Research

Handbook for Communicating Travel Time Reliability Through Graphics and Tables

Reliability information is desired by various audiences in different ways. Those with an interest in information range from decision makers, operators, and developers of reliability monitoring systems, to road users and shippers.  This handbook offers numerous ideas on how to communicate rel

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Research

Guide to Establishing Monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability

The SHRP2 L02 project is being carried out to “develop system designs for programs to monitor travel time reliability and to prepare a guidebook that practitioners and others can use to design, build, operate, and maintain such systems.” The Guidebook is intended to help agency staff identify fun

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Research

Establishing Monitoring Programs for Mobility and Travel Time Reliability

The SHRP2 L02 project is being carried out to “develop system designs for programs to monitor travel time reliability and to prepare a guidebook that practitioners and others can use to design, build, operate, and maintain such systems.” The Guidebook is intended to help agency staff identify fun

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Case Studies & Lessons Learned

Kansas City Scout, Kansas and Missouri

KDOT and MoDOT partnered to create a traffic management system, KC Scout, which covers more than 125 miles of freeway in greater Kansas City.

About 300 cameras monitor highway conditions Imbedded sensors measure and gauge traffic flow Electronic message boards update travelers along
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