Overview
This white paper describes example best practices and references material related to the identified implementation plan priority needs. The paper also suggests supportive national actions to improve TSM&O Organization and Staffing – development of a TSM&O organization and staffing gap analysis tool, polling State DOT senior TSM&O managers on needed staff core capacities and identifying related training and educational resources, and reviewing secondary and graduate school curricula for TSM&O best practices and gaps – but also the need to develop new custom-tailored approaches to the issues raised by workshop participants in their implementation plan priorities. Important roles are seen for FHWA, AASHTO, and the National Operations Center of Excellence in supporting these efforts.