Strategic Planning and Decision Making in State Departments of Transportation

Strategic Planning and Decision Making in State Departments of Transportation
Author: Theodore H. Poister
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2004
Genre: Highway departments
ISBN: 0309070015

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 326: Strategic Planning and Decision Making in State Departments of Transportation examines state and provincial transportation departments' experience with strategic planning and synthesizes current approaches to linking strategic planning with other decision-making processes, including operational and tactical planning, resource allocation, performance management, and performance measurement.

Practices and Performance Measures for Local Public Agency Federally Funded Highway Projects

Practices and Performance Measures for Local Public Agency Federally Funded Highway Projects
Author: Leslie Ann McCarthy
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0309223822

"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 442: Practices and Performance Measures for Local Public Agency Federally Funded Highway Projects explores what performance measures, delivery practices, strategies, and tools are currently used in relation to federally-funded local public agency (LPA) highway project development and delivery, and how they are used to measure success in project administration. " -- Publisher's description.

Resource Allocation Logic Framework to Meet Highway Asset Preservation

Resource Allocation Logic Framework to Meet Highway Asset Preservation
Author: John Wiegmann
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2012
Genre: Bridges
ISBN: 0309258715

"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 736: Resource Allocation Logic Framework to Meet Highway Asset Preservation presents a logic framework for allocating limited highway asset preservation funds among competing demands in order to help maximize system performance. The report also presents a spreadsheet-based computational tool that implements the framework. Prototypical application scenarios and case-study examples illustrate how transportation agency staff may use the framework to assist resource allocation decision making"--Publication information.

Performance Measures for Freight Transportation

Performance Measures for Freight Transportation
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2011
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309155576

"This report presents a comprehensive, objective, and consistent set of measures to gauge the performance of the freight transportation system. These measures are presented in the form of a Freight System Report Card, which reports information in three formats, each increasingly detailed, to serve the needs of a wide variety of users from decision makers at all levels to anyone interested in assessing the performance of the nation's freight transportation system."--Pub. desc.