Delivering resources to save time, lives, and money

Publications Search Results

Best Practice

Creating an Effective Program to Advance Transportation System Management and Operations Primer

This Primer was created to raise awareness of the opportunities for improving the effectiveness of State and local Transportation System Management and Operations (TSM&O) activities. The Primer provides high-level guidance focused on key program, process, and organizational capabilities that

Learn More
Informational Product

Operations Benefit/Cost Analysis Desk Reference

This Desk Reference is intended to meet the needs of a wide range of practitioners looking to conduct benefit/cost analysis of operations strategies. The guidance provided in the Desk Reference includes basic background information on benefit/cost analysis, including basic terminology and concept

Learn More
FAQs / Benefits Brochure

Applying Analysis Tools in Planning for Operations

More and more, transportation system operators are seeing the benefits of strengthening links between planning and operations. A critical element in improving transportation decision-making and the effectiveness of transportation systems related to operations and planning is through the use of an

Learn More
Informational Product

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

This primer on Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination is based on the premise that to improve the reliability, safety, and security of transportation systems operating across jurisdictional and organizational boundaries, continuous collaboration and coordination is esse

Learn More
Case Studies & Lessons Learned

The Regional Concept for Transportation Operations: A Practitioner's Guide

This practitioner’s guide is a collection of the observed successes and lessons learned from four metropolitan regions as they developed Regional Concepts for Transportation Operations (RCTOs), a management tool used by planners and operations practitioners to define a strategic direction for imp

Learn More
Informational Product

Regional Concept for Transportation Operations: The Blueprint for Action - A Primer

A Regional Concept for Transportation Operations (RCTO) is a management tool to assist in planning and implementing management and operations strategies in a collaborative and sustained manner. Developing an RCTO helps partnering agencies think through and reach consensus on what they want to ach

Learn More
Informational Product

Getting More by Working Together — Opportunities for Linking Planning and Operations

This resource guide is designed to help planning and operations managers understand the value of working together and realize the benefits of pursuing management and operations strategies at the regional scale. This goes a step beyond jurisdiction and agency coordination on planning and investmen

Learn More
Informational Product

The Collaborative Advantage: Realizing the Tangible Benefits of Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration

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 illustrat

Learn More
Presentation

Connected Vehicles and the Future of Transportation

Presentation on connected vehicles and automated transportation prepared for the SHRP2 Project L36 Regional Operations Forums pilots.

The Regional Operations Forums are a new total-immersion week-long training activity that offers transportation agency leaders the opportunity to learn a

Learn More
Presentation

How To Organize for Operations

Presentation on how to organize for operations prepared for the SHRP2 Project L36 Regional Operations Forums pilots.

The Regional Operations Forums are a new total-immersion week-long training activity that offers transportation agency leaders the opportunity to learn about le

Learn More