Overview
This reference manual is designed to help managers and decision makers within local, regional, and state agencies who participate in transportation operations and planning to understand the range of benefits that can be gained from participating in multi-agency collaborative efforts. It illustrates how agencies can benefit by collaborating with other agencies to address transportation problems of regional significance and what common collaborative strategies are used to take advantage of opportunities for improving regional transportation systems performance. This guide aims to help agency managers and other transportation operators and decision makers identify opportunities for effective collaboration, anticipate tangible benefits to their agencies and jurisdictions, and make the case for collaboration with other agencies.
Sections of the manual cover:
- a framework for describing the benefits of collaboration
- benefits of key collaborative strategies and actions
- a six-step process that agencies can follow to realize these benefits
- detailed profiles of current collaborative arrangements.