Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination: A Primer for Working Together to Improve Transportation Safety, Reliability, and Security

Overview

The goal of this document is to aid managers and officials in constant collaboration with each other. It helps those professionals understand what regional collaboration entails, why it is important, and how to begin. It will also help previously established relationships improve their coordination and continue to increase collaboration. This document focuses on improving operational performance for safe, reliable, and secure transportation systems. It also highlights how regional operations collaboration and coordination will aid in combating the growth of demand, congestion, weather, emergencies, and other customer service requirements.

Operations Area of Practice

    Access Management
    Bicycles and Pedestrians
    Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
    Active Traffic Management (ATM)
    Regional Traffic Signal Operations & Program Management
    Integrated ITS Deployment
    Communications
    Systems engineering
    Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
    Communicating Reliability Information
    Customer Request Management
    Traffic Impact Assessment
    Planning for Operations
    Road Weather Management
    Traffic Incident Management
    Planned Special Events Traffic Management
    Emergency Transportation Operations

Organizational Capability Element

    Performance Management
    Planning
    Programming/Budget/Funding
    System Architecture / Engineering
    Integrated Corridor Management
    Project Systems Engineering
    Regional Architectures
    Traffic Incident Management
    Emergency Transportation Operations
    Planned Special Event Management
    Road Weather Management
    Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
    Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation

Content Type

Standards & Recommended Practices

Role in Organization

Transportation Planner
Manager / First Line Supervisor
Director / Program Manager
Technician
Operator
Senior Manager
Public Safety Officer

Publishing Organization

FHWA

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FHWA-OP-03-008