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Identification of Cross-Cutting Issues Related to the Development, Management, and Delivery of Transportation Projects and Programs

  • 2005-2009
  • Asset Management
  • Associate Engineer
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • Leadership/Championship
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • NCHRP
  • Operator
  • Outreach & Marketing
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
  • Principal Engineer
  • Procurement
  • Program Status/Authorities
  • Programming/Budget/Funding
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Project Development Overview
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Scoping
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • TSMO Asset Management
  • TSMO Culture
  • Technical Understanding
  • Technician
  • Training and Profesional Development
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF
State departments of transportation (DOTs) face many challenges today. Acquiring adequate staffing, managing critical assets, dealing with political issues at federal, state and local levels, and serving a public with ever higher expectations are just a few. It has never been more difficult to take
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Guide to Benchmarking Operations Performance Measures

  • 2005-2009
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • NCHRP
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Management
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Senior Manager
  • System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
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This study developed a guide with procedures for benchmarking performance measures for systems operations and management. A workshop was held on February 27-28, 2007 to refine the definitions for the performance measures and to begin identifying test cases.
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Cost-Effective Performance Measures for Travel Time Delay, Variation and Reliability

  • 2005-2009
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
  • Available Tools
  • Deployment (L3)
  • Development (L2)
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Engineer
  • Freeway Operations
  • Freight Management Operations
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Learning
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Monitoring (L4)
  • NCHRP
  • Operator
  • Outreach & Marketing
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Principal Engineer
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Travel Demand Management
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management

This guidebook presents a framework and cost-effective methods to estimate, predict, measure, and report travel time, delay, and reliability performance data. This guidebook also presents various data collection methods, analysis approaches, and applications that effectively support transportatio

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The Role of Transit in Emergency Evacuation

  • 2005-2009
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Freeway Management
  • Freeway Operations
  • Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
  • Leadership
  • Leadership/Championship
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • Operator
  • Outsourcing/PPP
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Events Traffic Management
  • Planning
  • Planning for Operations
  • Principal Engineer
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
  • Real Time Traveler Information
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • TRB
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Transit Operations
  • Transit Professional
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
    • |PDF

This report, commissioned by Congress, explores the capacity of transit systems serving the nation’s 38 largest urbanized areas (representing populations of >1 million) to accommodate the evacuation, egress, or ingress of people from or to critical locations in times of emergency. The research

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Conceptual Development of an AASHTO Guide to Systems Operations and Management

  • 2005-2009
  • Asset Management
  • Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Leadership/Championship
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • NCHRP
  • Organizational Models
  • Outreach & Marketing
  • Outsourcing/PPP
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
  • Procurement
  • Program Status/Authorities
  • Programming/Budget/Funding
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Project Development Overview
  • Public safety agency collaboration
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Scoping
  • Senior Manager
  • TSMO Asset Management
  • Technical Understanding
    • |PDF
The objective of this project was to develop a scope and detailed table of contents for an AASHTO Guide to Systems Operations and Management based on input from operations professionals, knowledge of the industry, and familiarity with existing AASHTO guides.
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Project Delivery Workforce Management Review

  • 2005-2009
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Configuration Management
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • NCHRP
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Senior Manager
  • Transportation Management Centers
  • Transportation Management Centers (TMC / TOC)
    • |PDF
This study developed a menu of options for managing project delivery workforce issues. It includes a summary of current practice and a workshop to develop a plan to address the issues.
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Statewide Incident Reporting Systems—Business and Technology Plan

  • 2005-2009
  • Asset Management
  • Associate Engineer
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Employee Health and Safety
  • Engineer
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • NCHRP
  • Operator
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Principal Engineer
  • Procurement
  • Programming/Budget/Funding
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Project Development Overview
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Public safety agency collaboration
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Roadway Safety Services / Roadway Safety Patrol
  • Scoping
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
  • TSMO Asset Management
  • Technician
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF
This study laid the groundwork for a business and technology plan to meet the requirements of Statewide Incident Reporting Systems included in SAFETEA-LU.
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Research

Vehicle-Based Technologies for Winter Maintenance: The State of the Practice

  • 2005-2009
  • Associate Engineer
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • NCHRP
  • Operator
  • Principal Engineer
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Technician
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF
The NCHRP 20-07/Task 200 Project is complete. The final report titled "Vehicle-Based Technologies for Winter Maintenance: The State of the Practice".
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Guide to Effective Freeway Performance Measurement: Final Report and Guidebook

  • Associate Engineer
  • Communicating Reliability Information
  • Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • Freeway Management
  • Freeway Operations
  • How-To
  • Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • NCHRP
  • Organizational Models
  • Outreach & Marketing
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Principal Engineer
  • Programming/Budget/Funding
  • Real Time Traveler Information
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
  • Transportation Planner
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
    • |PDF
This document includes both a summary report and a detailed guidebook on effective freeway performance measurement focusing on congestion/mobility on freeways. Specific areas covered in the guidebook include the rationale for performance measures, context, definition and description of performance m
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Research

A Transportation Executive's Guide to Organizational Improvement

  • 2005-2009
  • Assessment (L1)
  • Available Tools
  • Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Communicating Reliability Information
  • Deployment (L3)
  • Development (L2)
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • Leadership/Championship
  • Learning
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Monitoring (L4)
  • NCHRP
  • Organizational Models
  • Outreach & Marketing
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
  • Planning for Operations
  • Principal Engineer
  • Prioritization
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Strategic Planning
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner

This report is a guide to state DOT best practice in organizational improvement programs and performance. It provides guidance on determining where and how to start improving organizational effectiveness. Actual state program examples, tips, and data are included among detail on these nine succes

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