Overview
This primer is intended to provide advice to staff at MPOs on how to reevaluate their CMPs. It will show the value of integrating travel-time reliability into the CMP to address non-recurrent congestion. It will identify tools and data sources that are available to assist planners in monitoring and predicting travel-time reliability. Incorporating reliability in the CMP will result in a more-robust regional transportation system with objectives, performance measures, and strategies that align more closely with public and freight shippers' concerns.
In particular, this primer provides guidance and potential opportunities for using products developed through the SHRP 2 Reliability focus area. They have been developed, in part, to support and advance the CMP and Planning for Operations [5] as part of the metropolitan transportation planning process.