Overview
This Desk Reference is designed to equip State, regional, and local transportation operations and planning professionals with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively plan for and implement TSMO within a corridor context. Its purpose is to support transportation planners and operations staff in planning for and applying TSMO activities within corridors to achieve a more reliable, efficient, and livable outcome from their existing and planned transportation infrastructure. Utilizing a planning for operations approach at a corridor level can help to focus on issues (e.g., mobility, reliability, and safety) from a multimodal perspective and bring to light cost-effective demand management and operations solutions that may not otherwise have been fully considered.
The document describes planning for TSMO at the corridor level so that readers can tailor and apply this approach in a variety of corridor contexts. This Desk Reference is founded upon three themes for success that cut across all TSMO planning efforts:
- Use of an objectives-driven, performance-based approach.
- Collaboration across agencies, jurisdictions, and modes.
- Linking to overarching planning processes at the metropolitan or statewide level.
The Desk Reference connects readers to other tools and resources developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and partners to support a more in-depth understanding of several topics introduced in this document. It draws upon concepts, such as ICM and active transportation demand management (ATDM), that are increasingly focusing attention on collaboration across multimodal system operators and planners to address corridor conditions. Quick reference sheets provide examples of corridor operations objectives, performance measures, and the management and operations strategies that can be applied as readers move forward in applying the components of planning for and implementing TSMO within corridors.