This guidebook provides practitioners with an understanding of the individual elements of a Congestion Management Process (CMP) and includes practical examples of how to implement a successful process based on lessons learned from MPOs across the country. The document addresses the role of the CM
This report discusses future actions and the role of The Coordinated Highways Action Response Team (CHART). This is Maryland’s highway operations element for the state’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program - whose focus is on mitigation of non-recurring congestion that occurs due to
The purpose of this document is to support the agencies and groups that are beginning the process of rural or statewide Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) deployment planning. Along with the previously published Rural Toolbox (FHWA-OP-01-030), this best practice document guides users throug
Traffic incident management (TIM) is a planned and coordinated program to detect and remove incidents and restore traffic capacity as safely and quickly as possible. This report describes task-specific and cross-cutting issues or challenges commonly encountered by TIM responders in the performanc
This best practices document contains 27 case studies of systems in 22 states that improve roadway operations under inclement weather conditions. Each case study has six sections including a general description of the system, system components, operational procedures, resulting transportation out
The NCHRP 693 Report considers the supply and demand of both the current and future TSM&O workforce - the actions transportation agencies may take to attract, recruit, develop, and retain skilled staff with needed capabilities; and the tools that are available or may be developed to assist ag
This primer offers transportation planners and operations managers a menu of opportunities for applying the regional ITS architecture to enhance planning for operations. Because many TSM&O strategies are underpinned by ITS, the coordination of planning for ITS among agencies at the institutio
The thrust of the L03 research was the development of methods to predict travel time reliability. The study took a strictly empirical approach to developing these relationships. Two types of models were developed: Predicting Reliability Metrics as a Function of the Mean Travel Time Index and Pred
This document is a resource designed to enable transportation planners and their partners to build a transportation plan that includes operations objectives, performance measures, and strategies that are relevant to their region, that reflect the community’s values and constraints, and that move
This guidebook presents an approach for integrating TSM&O strategies into the metropolitan transportation planning process that is designed to maximize the performance of the existing and planned transportation system. Planning for operations is recommended as a means to meet federal transpor
