Framework for Collaborative Decision Making on Additions to Highway Capacity

Framework for Collaborative Decision Making on Additions to Highway Capacity
Author: ICF International
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 193
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ISBN: 0309314895

This report from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, describes a framework—including for long-range planning, corridor planning, project programming, environmental review, and environmental permitting— that supports collaborative business practices for reaching decisions on adding highway capacity when necessary.

Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes: Technical Reference

Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes: Technical Reference
Author: Transportation Research Board
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 341
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ISBN: 0309274354

This report from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, provides a “how-to” guide for technical staff to select and calculate the appropriate performance measures to support the development of key planning products, including long-range transportation plans, transportation programs, congestion management process, corridor planning, and operations planning.

Guide to Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes

Guide to Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes
Author: Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Transportation Research Board
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 112
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ISBN: 0309274206

This report from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, is designed to help planning, programming, and operations managers apply the concept of travel time reliability to balance investment in programs and projects.

Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance

Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309132568

The nation's physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes wastes; enables rapid communications; and generally supports our economy and quality of life. Developing a framework for guiding attempts at measuring the performance of infrastructure systems and grappling with the concept of defining good performance are the major themes of this book. Focusing on urban regions, within a context of national policy, the volume provides the basis for further in-depth analysis and application at the local, regional, state, and national levels.

Highway Research

Highway Research
Author: David J. Wise
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437928978

The 2005 Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users authorized the Dept. of Transportation (DoT) to establish a highway research program to address future challenges facing the U.S. highway system. In 2006, the Second Strategic Highway Research Program was established to conduct research in four areas -- safety, renewal, reliability, and capacity. The legislation also required a review of the program no later than three years after the first research contracts were awarded. This report provides information about the process for selecting the program's projects for funding, the projects' status, and what, if any, research was eliminated because of funding and time constraints. Charts and tables.

Measuring Transportation Network Performance

Measuring Transportation Network Performance
Author: Cambridge Systematics
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2010
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309154928

This guidebook provides methods for integrating performance measures from individual transportation modes and multiple jurisdictions and for developing new measures, if needed, to monitor transportation network performance. These network performance measures can be used to improve system management, planning, and investment decisions and can be applied to various scenarios. The guidebook should be of immediate use to practitioners in state, regional, or local governments; specially designated authorities; or those in the private sector who are responsible for measuring, operating, and investing in the performance of multimodal and/or multijurisdictional transportation networks.

Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning

Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2012
Genre: Highway capacity
ISBN: 0309129354

"The purpose of SHRP 2 project C08, Community Visioning Approach to Support the SHRP 2 Collaborative Decision-Making Framework for Additions to Highway Capacity, was to help transportation agency practitioners assess the possibilities of community visioning efforts, identify practical steps and activities when engaging in visioning, and establish links between vision outcomes and transportation planning and project development processes. To these ends, this research presents a model - the Vision Guide - or the preparation, creation, and implementation of a visioning process. A companion web tool was also developed. SHRP 2 Report S2-C08-RR-1: Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning is available as a PDF and through the TRB bookstore. The appendices, which include case studies and a collection of resources, were published as a separate document, S2-C08-RW-2, and are available only as a PDF. The Vision Guide is connected to the transportation planning and project development processes identified in related SHRP 2 Capacity research and presented in the Decision Guide structure on the website Transportation for Communities - Advancing Projects through Partnership (TCAPP), found at transportationforcommunities.com"--Publisher's description

The Federal Investment in Highway Research, 2006-2009

The Federal Investment in Highway Research, 2006-2009
Author: Transportation Research Board
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2009-01-22
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309178231

TRB Special Report 295, The Federal Investment in Highway Research, 2006-2009: Strengths and Weaknesses assesses how well the investments that Congress made in research programs through the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users comply with the principles articulated in the preface to the act's research title. The book contains findings and recommendations about specific research programs and calls for reliance on competition and merit review in awarding funds through the Federal Highway Administration and in selecting institutions for the University Transportation Centers program of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration.