Overview
This resource guide's purpose is to help planning and operations managers understand why working together is valuable, and further understand the benefits of pursuing management and operations strategies at the regional scale. The guide explains how existing relationships can be strengthened, and how new relationships and opportunities for further collaboration can be developed. It highlights the idea that both planners and operators have essential roles in building those connections and relationships. Specific opportunities for improving connections between planning and operations are highlighted throughout the document, collected from professionals representing planning and operations at all levels of the government. The main linkage opportunities include the transportation planning process, data sharing, performance measures, congestion management systems, funding and resource sharing, institutional arrangements, regional ITS architecture, regional management and operations projects, and regional concept for transportation operations. The document describes each of these linkage opportunities in detail.