Data Sharing and Data Partnerships for Highways

Data Sharing and Data Partnerships for Highways
Author: Kevin E. Heanue
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2000
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780309068703

This synthesis report will be of interest to DOT administrators, supervisors, and staff, as well as to the consultants that work with them. Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) regional and local agency staffs might also find it informative. The synthesis was initiated in response to a recommendation made during the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) Reassessment, which was undertaken by the FHWA in 1997/1998 to expand data sharing and partnering more widely among states, MPOs, and local governments. It documents current arrangements among state DOTs, MPOs, and other local and regional agencies to partner in the collection and share in the use of HPMS data. Key elements examined include institutional arrangements, the use of data and data sharing, cost and resource requirements, technical capabilities/barriers, implementation processes, and data quality and capability, as well as successes, failures, and difficulties. Case studies of successful state and MPO partnerships are included.

The New Silk Roads

The New Silk Roads
Author: Peter Frankopan
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0525566708

From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now—as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues Peter Frankopan in this revelatory new book. In the age of Brexit and Trump, the West is buffeted by the tides of isolationism and fragmentation. Yet to the East, this is a moment of optimism as a new network of relationships takes shape along the ancient trade routes. In The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan takes us on an eye-opening journey through the region, from China's breathtaking infrastructure investments to the flood of trade deals among Central Asian republics to the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Russia. This important book asks us to put aside our preconceptions and see the world from a new—and ultimately hopeful—perspective.

Information Needs to Support State and Local Transportation Decision Making Into the 21st Century

Information Needs to Support State and Local Transportation Decision Making Into the 21st Century
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1997
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780309062060

The conference provided an opportunity for participants to (a) identify the types of data that are critical for planning and policy analysis; (b) identify data-collection requirements; (c) discuss the appropriate roles of and relationships among federal, state, and local agencies in the context of data collection and dissemination; and (d) review the impact of technological advances on data collection and dissemination. The invitation-only conference included participants from state departments of transportation (DOTs), metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and federal agencies providing broad representation of the transportation planning and policy communities. Significant effort was made to include a full spectrum of policy, management, and front-line analysts who have extensive experience in answering policy questions, supporting the planning process, and responding to federal reporting requirements.

Electronic Highway Infrastructure Development and Information Services (in Arizona)

Electronic Highway Infrastructure Development and Information Services (in Arizona)
Author: Mark Goldstein
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998-10
Genre: Government communication systems
ISBN: 0788172352

Presents recommendations, analysis, and process descriptions intended to redefine, broaden, and make more meaningful the ongoing efforts of the Arizona Electronic Highway Users Group. Addresses telecomm. trends and resources for local gov't., model telecomm. ordinances, right-of-way coord., licensing/franchising and revenue stream protection, locating and permitting wireless providers, emergency/public safety commun., telecommuting and teleconf., public electronic access to info. and services, e-mail and Internet use policy, computer security, ergonomics and human factors, info. tech. mgmt., year 2000 software issues, etc.

Smart Partnerships

Smart Partnerships
Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1997
Genre: Highway research
ISBN:

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), in striving to meet the Nation's need for the safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transport of people and goods, is continuing to work toward the creation and nurturing of leveraging partnerships. Closer collaboration between Federal, State, and local entities improves communication and cohesion between the organizations. The formation of the partnerships also creates powerful potential for the broad public-private interest alliances to establish agendas that further benefit the highway community. However, the ultimate benefit of the FHWA's partnering ventures is advancement toward better, safer roads at the lowest cost possible. This booklet contains descriptions of partnerships that exemplify these benefits.

National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Programs

National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Programs
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2001-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309076455

The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) was envisioned as a way of enhancing the accessibility, communication, and use of geospatial data to support a wide variety of decisions at all levels of society. The goals of the NSDI are to reduce redundancy in geospatial data creation and maintenance, reduce the costs of geospatial data creation and maintenance, improve access to geospatial data, and improve the accuracy of geospatial data used by the broader community. At the core of the NSDI is the concept of partnerships, or collaborations, between different agencies, corporations, institutions, and levels of government. In a previous report, the Mapping Science Committee (MSC) defined a partnership as "...a joint activity of federal and state agencies, involving one or more agencies as joint principals focusing on geographic information." The concept of partnerships was built on the foundation of shared responsibilities, shared costs, shared benefits, and shared control. Partnerships are designed to share the costs of creation and maintenance of geospatial data, seeking to avoid unnecessary duplication, and to make it possible for data collected by one agency at a high level of spatial detail to be used by another agency in more generalized form. Over the past seven years, a series of funding programs administered by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) has stimulated the creation of such partnerships, and thereby promoted the objectives of the NSDI, by raising awareness of the need for a coordinated national approach to geospatial data creation, maintenance, and use. They include the NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program, the Framework Demonstration Projects Program, the Community Demonstration Projects, and the Community-Federal Information Partnerships proposal. This report assesses the success of the FGDC partnership programs that have been established between the federal government and state and local government, industry, and academic communities in promoting the objectives of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.