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Page : 57 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 1995
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Performance Measures and a Framework for Decison-making Under the National Transportation System
Ned Codd
Author : Ned Codd
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Freight and freightage
ISBN :
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) requires the development of a National Intermodal Transportation System, commonly referred to as the National Transportation System (NTS). The primary goals of the NTS are to monitor the nation's transportation network, in all modes and for freight as well as passengers, and to support national transportation planning and policy that maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the network. To these ends, the NTS must assess the transportation network based on its performance, regardless of mode. The NTS must have as its basis a set of measures applicable to different modes that reflects the varied goals of ISTEA in the areas of mobility, environmental, social, and economic performance. This report proposes performance measures for the NTS, as well as a decision-making framework for using them. Further, it provides background on the environment in which these performance measures will be used by examining the ISTEA legislation, the NTS initiative, and potential data sources for supporting these performance measures.
Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making
Author :
Publisher : Transportation Research Board National Research
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Examines five broad areas of performance including transportation, environment, economics, community, and cost.
Transportation Decision Making
Kumares C. Sinha
Author : Kumares C. Sinha
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1118169662
This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decisionmaking in transportation project development and programming, whichcan help transportation professionals to optimize their investmentchoices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies forevaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs andimpacts are taken into consideration. The text's logical organization gets readers started with asolid foundation in basic principles and then progressively buildson that foundation. Topics covered include: Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimatingtravel demand, and costing transportation projects Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts forsuch factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operatingcosts Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and landuse as well as its impact on society and culture Assessing a project's environmental impact, including airquality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multipleperformance criteria Programming transportation investments so that resources can beoptimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-widegoals Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followedby a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation isdiscussed and available software for performing evaluations ispresented. At the end of each chapter, readers are providedresources for detailed investigation of particular topics. Theseinclude Internet sites and publications of international anddomestic agencies and research institutions. The authors alsoprovide a companion Web site that offers updates, data foranalysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decisionmaking. Given that billions of dollars are spent each year ontransportation systems in the United States alone, and that thereis a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision makingfor cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this textshould be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers,and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is anideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysisand evaluation.
Performance Measures, Data Acquisition and Performance Evaluation Under the National Transportation System
Ned Codd
Author : Ned Codd
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Geographic information systems
ISBN :
The National Transportation System (NTS), an outgrowth of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), is proposed in this research as an analytical tool to guide national transportation policy making. The NTS must be based upon measures of transportation performance that are intermodal, user oriented, and suitable for tracking the environmental, social, and economic outcomes of transportation system use. A set of such performance measures is proposed, and implications of the measures for various modes are discussed. This proposal and discussion of performance measures is the critical component of this report. A major concern in the implementation of these performance measures is the data that supports them. A great deal of data is required to track the performance of the basic components of NTS analysis: major transportation facilities and regional transportation systems. Appropriate data sources for the NTS performance measures are identified, a sample of demonstration data is applied to the performance measures, and problems with data acquisition and application are discussed. A general framework for using the performance measures to achieve the NTS policy objective is proposed, and the implications of geographic information systems (GIS) and other technologies are discussed. Conclusions and recommendations from this research are presented.
A Primer on Performance-based Highway Program Management
AASHTO Task Force on Performance Management
Author : AASHTO Task Force on Performance Management
Publisher : AASHTO
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Highway departments
ISBN : 1560514035
This report follows an earlier AASHTO report for the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission (the Commission) entitled State DOT Performance Management Programs: Select Examples, published in June 2007. It examined performance-based surface transportation program approaches currently being implemented at some of the state DOTs around the country. Building on that primer, this report describes the basic principles involved in applying performance measurement to the state budgeting and program delivery process, and profiles how 11 states have applied these principles to improve performance and accountability.
Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems
Author :
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Highway departments
ISBN : 0309094178
Data for Decisions
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Strategic Transportation Data Needs
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Strategic Transportation Data Needs
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309051569
TRB Special Report 234 - Data for Decisions: Requirements for National Transportation Policy Making examines data requirements necessary to support strategic transportation policy making and the institutional changes necessary to make those data available on a permanent basis. The report calls for the establishment of a statistical agency within USDOT (this recommendation became helped create the Bureau of Transportation Statistics), the development of performance indicators, and regular reporting to the Secretary and Congress on important trends in system performance.
U.S. and International Approaches to Performance Measurement for Transportation Systems
Author :
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Highway departments
ISBN : 0309126045
"These proceedings contain a summary of the Transportation Research Board conference on U.S. and international approaches to performance measurement for transportation systems that was conducted on September 9-12, 2007, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies in Irvine, California. The theme for this third in a series of international conferences, Better Decisions and Better Communication, was selected to highlight opportunities for and experiences in using performance measurement as a strategic tool to better communicate goals and objectives and results to a wide range of stakeholder groups. Presentations highlighted cases in which performance measures have proved useful in guiding resource allocation decisions, improving day-to-day operations, establishing and demonstrating agency competency and accountability and, in some instances, making the case for more resources. The conference consisted of five plenary sessions, each followed by a series of corresponding, concurrent breakout sessions. The topics of the five plenary sessions were Performance Measures as an Organizational Management Tool to Establish Accountability, Communicating Performance Results Effectively to Your Customers, Data and Tools, Hot Topics (addressing the use of performance measures to gauge the effectiveness of tolling and congestion pricing and other innovative transportation strategies to address sustainability and safety issues), and Performance-Based Contracting and Measuring Project Delivery. Three resource papers were developed for the conference. The conference attracted 180 participants from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States and featured 70 transportation specialists offering real-world expertise, from the application of performance metrics to case studies drawn from six countries. This range of experiences provided attendees with a comprehensive overview of the performance measurement techniques and approaches being applied to transportation systems in the United States and abroad."--Pub. desc.
Strategic Planning and Decision Making in State Departments of Transportation
Theodore H. Poister
Author : Theodore H. Poister
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : 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.