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21st century operations using 21st century technologies

Fostering Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination (RTOCC)

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Building RTOCC’s is fundamental to supporting 21st century operations. These partnerships focus on convening a wide variety of stakeholders. There are activities that cross, functional and jurisdictional, boundaries such as traffic incident management programs, real time traveler information services, response to weather events, and emergency management. They all depend on collaboration, coordination, and even communication to achieve optimum performance and truly benefit the traveling public – the ultimate customer. For regional operations to be effective, those directly responsible for operating the system must agree on what measures to use to assess performance, a concept for how the system should be operated on a regional basis, and how to make changes to achieve desired improvements in system operating performance.

Learn more about RTOCC (HTML, PDF - 150KB)

What's New

  • The Collaborative Advantage: Realizing the Tangible Benefits of Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration (HTML, PDF 3MB) - This manual uses nine collaborative efforts across the U.S. to illustrate the tangible benefits gained through key strategies such as sharing resources and expertise, performing joint operations, using common operations procedures, and exchanging real-time information. The manual includes a six-step process to allow agencies to estimate their benefits of collaboration.
  • Regional Concept for Transportation Operations: The Blueprint for Action - A Primer (HTML, PDF 5MB) - A Regional Concept for Transportation Operations (RCTO) is a management tool to assist in planning and implementing management and operations strategies in a collaborative and sustained manner. Developing an RCTO helps partnering agencies think through and reach consensus on what they want to achieve in the next 3 to 5 years and how they are going to get there. The purpose of this document is to explain what an RCTO is, the development of its elements, and its applicability.
  • Getting More by Working Together–Opportunities for Linking Planning and Operations: A Reference Manual (PDF, 5MB)
  • Regional Concept for Transportation Operations: A Tool for Strengthening and Guiding Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination (HTML, DOC - 205KB)

RTOCC Resources

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