Publications
Additional Publications
Additional Publications may be found on the following web sites:
Regional Concept for Transportation Operations
Regional Transportation Systems Management and Operations
Case Studies
- Applying Analysis Tools in Planning for Operations (Brochure)
(HTML, PDF 1.6MB) - The intent of this brochure, and four accompanying case study brochures, is to help planners and operations professionals use existing transportation planning and operations analysis tools and methods in a more systematic way to better analyze, evaluate, and report the benefits of needed investments in transportation operations, in order to make the overall transportation system work better. (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-001)
- Case Study #1 - Operations Strategy Impact Reference and Deployment Guidance (HTML, PDF 1.4MB) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-002)
- Case Study #2 - Incorporating Highway Capacity Manual Procedures into Long-Range Transportation Planning (HTML, PDF 1.4MB) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-003)
- Case Study #3 - Using Archived Data As a Tool for Operations Planning (HTML, PDF 2.8MB) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-004)
- Case Study #4 - Application of Microsimulation in Combination With Travel Demand Models (HTML, PDF 1.6MB) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-005)
- Capital District Transportation Committee Albany, New York (HTML, PDF 323KB) - Placing the Congestion Management Process in the Context of Metropolitan Transportation Planning Goals and Objectives (Albany, New York area) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-09-043)
- Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Philadelphia Metropolitan Region (HTML, PDF 306KB) - The Denver Region Traffic Signal System Improvement Program: Planning for Management and Operations (Denver, Colorado area) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-09-044)
- Metropolitan Transportation Commission San Francisco Bay Area (HTML, PDF 455KB) - Developing Regional Objectives and Performance Measures to Improve System Operations (San Francisco Bay Area, California) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-09-047)
- Regional Concept for Transportation Operations Fosters Planning For Operations in the Tucson Metropolitan Area (HTML, PDF 403KB) - Operator-Focused Planning For Operations (Tucson, Arizona area) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-09-048)
- The Denver Region Traffic Signal System Improvement Program (HTML, PDF 324KB) - Planning for Management and Operations (Denver, Colorado area) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-09-046)
- Wilmington Area Planning Council New Castle County, Delaware and Cecil County, Maryland (HTML, PDF 340KB) - A Performance-Based Approach to Integrating Congestion Management into the Metropolitan Planning Process (Newark, Delaware area) (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-09-045)
Congestion Management Process
- A Guidebook for Including Access Management in Transportation Planning (PDF 834KB) - This report (NCHRP Report 548) offers guidance for implementing access management through the transportation planning process.
- An Interim Guidebook on the Congestion Management Process in Metropolitan Transportation Planning (HTML, PDF 853KB) - This interim guidebook document showcases opportunities to utilize an objectives driven, performance-based approach to enhance the quality of CMP. This interim guidebook document, along with the M&O interim guidebook document, will be finalized in the Fall of 2008 after FHWA and FTA conduct a wide-ranging outreach program in Summer 2008 to showcase the guidebooks and receive further input on this approach.
- Congestion Management Process (CMP) Innovations: A Menu of Options (PDF 534KB) - This document was prepared for the New York State Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (NYSMPOs). The document provides a menu of options for metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to consider in implementing a Congestion Management Plan (CMP).
- Congestion Management System Practices (PDF 244KB) - This report describes the summary of Congestion Management System (CMS) processes currently in use around the United States.
- Frequency of Work Zone Accidents on Construction Projects - The Region 2 University Transportation Research Center has released a report that examines work zone accidents in New York State, with particular attention to the occurrence and mitigation of rear-end vehicle accidents.
- Improving Mobility and Accessibility with Managed Lanes, Pricing, and BRT - This report documents the proceedings of the 12th International HOV Systems Conference: Improving Mobility and Accessibility with Managed Lanes, Pricing, and BRT held in Houston, Texas on April 18–20, 2005. The proceedings summarize the presentations from the plenary sessions and the breakout sessions. The plenary sessions included presentations on the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) system in the Houston area, updates on national activities, and future trends in managing mobility.
- Incident Management Successful Practices: A Cross-Cutting Study (PDF 1.09MB) - This document provides a series of successful practices on managing traffic incidents.
- Linking Congestion Management to Operations (PDF 468KB)
- Management & Operations in the Metropolitan Transportation Plan: A Guidebook for Creating an Objectives-Driven, Performance-Based Approach (HTML, PDF 1.79MB) - This interim guidebook document showcases opportunities to utilize an objectives driven, performance-based approach to enhance the quality of M&O in the planning process. This interim guidebook document, along with the CMP interim guidebook document, will be finalized in the Fall of 2008 after FHWA and FTA conduct a wide-ranging outreach program in Summer 2008 to showcase the guidebooks and receive further input on this approach.
- Managing Demand Through Travel Information Services - The brochure highlights the opportunities and benefits for using traveler information services to manage demand during periods of congestion, including congestion during commute periods, special events, and emergencies. The brochure aims to provide ideas for the use of traveler information in states, regions, and communities. The brochure presents the diversity of traveler information systems employed around the country and overseas and how agencies are using traveler information as a demand management tool.
- Mitigating Traffic Congestion – The Role of Demand-side Strategies - Federal Highway Administration's Office of Transportation Management has produced a new report on demand-side strategies and the important role that it plays in 21st Century transportation operations. This report builds upon previous work done on travel demand management in the early 1990's to present a newer, more contemporary, perspective on what managing demand in the 21st Century really means. The in-depth case studies illustrate a handful of the many applications of demand-side strategies in place today. The case studies attempt to highlight the diversity of programs, with an effort to find examples that also provided one or more measures of program effectiveness.
- Ramp Management and Control Handbook - The purpose of this handbook is to improve the operation of freeways and their associated ramps by providing support, information, guidance, and recommended practice to practitioners responsible for freeway management and operations. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-06-01, January 2006.
- The Relationship between Congestion Management and the Planning Process (PDF 872KB)
- Travel Time Reliability: Making It There On Time, All The Time - Travel time reliability is an increasing concern of travelers, shippers, and businesses. Recent advances in data collection mean that travel time reliability can now be quantified. This report provides guidance in answering questions such as: What is travel time reliability? Why is travel time reliability important? What measures are used to quantify travel time reliability? What are the steps for developing travel time reliability measures? Are there case studies illustrating steps to calculate reliability measures? Who is using reliability measures?
- Using CMP Tools to Advance NEPA Documentation (PDF 208KB)
Data Collection and Sharing
- Archived Data Management Systems (ADMS): A Cross-Cutting Study - The study examines six ADMSs in depth, discussing their design considerations, operational practices, benefits, and costs.
- Data Partnerships: Making Connections for Effective Transportation Planning (PDF 232KB) - This report summarizes the results of a peer exchange held to address some of the benefits and challenges facing the development of transportation data partnerships.
- Guidelines for Developing ITS Data Archiving Systems (PDF 1.66MB) - This report provides guidance on data archiving systems.
- Innovative Traffic Data Collection: An Analysis of Potential Uses in Florida (PDF 3MB) - This report provides an analysis of a number of innovative methods for collecting traffic sensor data and their potential applications in Florida. The main focus of this analysis focuses on the applications of these data collection methods on the Florida Interstate Highway System.
- Lessons Learned: Monitoring Highway Congestion and Reliability Using Archived Traffic Detector Data - This report summarizes the top 10 lessons learned from the Mobility Monitoring Program with respect to using archived traffic detector data for monitoring highway performance (e.g., traffic congestion and travel reliability). The top 10 lessons learned are centered on these three general areas: analytical methods, data quality, and institutional issues.
- Measuring Congestion: Learning From Operational Data (PDF 512KB) - This report summarizes how the Washington State DOT (WSDOT) uses operational data to assist in measuring congestion, evaluating capital and operational improvements, and communicating traveler information and system performance to the public. It is not intended as the definitive work on congestion measurement; rather, it describes WSDOT's experience in learning more about congestion measurement.
- Sharing Data for Traveler Information: Practices and Policies of Public Agencies (DOC 414KB) - As the primary source of basic data on travel conditions, public agencies through their data sharing practices can have a powerful effect on deployment of 511 telephone numbers and other types of traveler information services. This report documents the current state of the practice, describing how the public and private sectors deal with data ownership and sharing, and examines policies aimed at facilitating data sharing and ultimately improving the quantity and quality of information that reaches travelers.
- Sharing Information between Public Safety and Transportation Agencies for Traffic Incident Management (PDF 707KB) - This report (NCHRP Report 520) presents lessons learned from around the country on how public safety and transportation agencies share information for managing traffic incidents. Managers of traffic incident management programs, either public safety or transportation, can apply these lessons to improve the capabilities of their programs.
- VDOT CEDAR GIS Application - Virginia DOT's Comprehensive Environmental Data and Reporting (CEDAR) system - Virginia DOT has integrated GIS into its planning process. CEDAR is used to catalogue transportation and natural resource data for use in transportation geospatial applications.
Funding and Resource Sharing
- Analysis of Capital Cost Elements and Their Effect on Operating Costs, TRB, December 2005 (PDF 617KB) - The Region 2 University Transportation Research Center has released a report that examines cost overruns, unit cost escalation, and project escalation for light rail capital costs. The report suggests that training, peer reviews, less restrictive procurement requirements, and improved understanding of life-cycle costs and standards could help mitigate cost growth.
- Project Performance Report - 2003: Regional Operations and Technical Assistance Programs In the San Francisco Bay Area, Fiscal Year 2002-03 (PDF 937KB) - This report provides an update on the San Francisco Bay Area regional operations and technical assistance program funding and tracks project performance.
- Transportation Systems Management and Operations: Operating Cost Eligibility Under the Federal-Aid Highway Program - This guidance is meant to assist FHWA partners in determining applicability of Federal-Aid Funding for the operating costs of traffic monitoring, management, and control systems, such as integrated traffic control systems, incident management programs, and traffic control centers. This incorporates and updates information provided in information fliers discussing reimbursement of startup and operating costs for traffic control management projects provided in January 1998 and again in January 1999 by the Office of Traffic Management and Intelligent Transportation Systems Applications.
Institutional Arrangements
- Bicycles & Transit: A Partnership that Works (PDF 1.2MB) - This Federal Transit Administration brochure describes how transit agencies around the country are building connections, and how Federal transportation programs may be used to support more of these efforts.
- Highway Safety and Public Health: State Legislative Action, 2004 - The National Conference of State Legislatures has released a report that summarizes the many bills on traffic safety issues that were considered by state legislatures during the 2004 legislative sessions. The report is designed to provide information about current traffic safety issues to legislators, federal officials, and other interested parties.
- Institutions for Transportation Operations with Recommendations for Reauthorization (DOC 272KB) - This report discusses the number of institutional and technical challenges that must be addressed in order to create effective transportation systems operations.
- Lessons Learned: Monitoring Highway Congestion and Reliability Using Archived Traffic Detector Data - This report summarizes the top 10 lessons learned from the Mobility Monitoring Program with respect to using archived traffic detector data for monitoring highway performance (e.g., traffic congestion and travel reliability). The top 10 lessons learned are centered on these three general areas: analytical methods, data quality, and institutional issues.
- Organizing for Regional Transportation Operations Conference (PDF 926KB) - This report describes the proceedings of a conference held to discuss the challenges of multi-jurisdictional partnerships for metropolitan regional transportation operations and to establish potential next steps for supporting and advancing these partnerships nationwide.
- 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.
- Transportation Systems Management and Operations: Operating Cost Eligibility Under the Federal-Aid Highway Program - This guidance is meant to assist FHWA partners in determining applicability of Federal-Aid Funding for the operating costs of traffic monitoring, management, and control systems, such as integrated traffic control systems, incident management programs, and traffic control centers. This incorporates and updates information provided in information fliers discussing reimbursement of startup and operating costs for traffic control management projects provided in January 1998 and again in January 1999 by the Office of Traffic Management and Intelligent Transportation Systems Applications.
Performance Measurement
- 2005 Urban Mobility Report - This report uses data from federal, state, and local agencies to develop estimates of congestion and mobility within an urban area.
- Advancing Metropolitan Planning for Operations: An Objectives-Driven, Performance-Based Approach – A Guidebook (HTML, PDF 977KB) - This guidebook presents an approach for integrating management and operations (M&O) strategies into the metropolitan transportation planning process that is designed to maximize the performance of the existing and planned transportation system. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-026, February 2010.
- Advancing Metropolitan Planning for Operations: The Building Blocks of a Model Transportation Plan Incorporating Operations - A Desk Reference (HTML, PDF 2.1MB) - This publication is a resource designed to enable transportation planners and their planning partners to build a transportation plan that includes operations objectives, performance measures, and strategies that are relevant to their region, that reflect the community's values and constraints, and that move the region in a direction of improved mobility and safety. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-027, April 2010.
- Identification of Operation Assets - This document provides an informational foundation for operations asset management. Identifying the operations assets will establish a base line from which analytical capabilities; and data, information, and performance measure needs can be identified. The information will also help characterize aspects of operations asset management. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-05-056.
- Integrated Corridor Traffic Management, Final Evaluation Report (PDF 1.22MB) - This report summarizes the recommendations, conclusions, best practices, and lessons learned based on findings derived from an Integrated Corridor Traffic Management evaluation in Minnesota. EDL Number: 12863.
- Performance-Based Measures in Transit Fund Allocation - This report (TCRP Synthesis 56) examines the extent to which traditional measures of transit performance, such as internal measures of economic efficiency, service effectiveness, and productivity, are used in allocating funds to transit.
- Performance Measures of Operational Effectiveness for Highway Segments and Systems Operations Performance Measures - This report (NCHRP Synthesis 311) examines the use of performance measures for the monitoring and operational management of highway segments and systems.
- Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems: Summary of the Second National Conference - This report (TRB Conference Proceedings 36) contains the proceedings from a conference held on August 22–24, 2004, in Irvine, California. The purpose of the conference was to explore the implementation and use of performance measures and to discuss how to monitor the impact of performance measures on the delivery and quality of transportation services. The proceedings include summaries of presentations made in each conference session and of resource papers. These summaries highlight a variety of agencies' experiences with the set of performance measures and identify research that could improve the set of performance measures. The resource papers prepared for the conference are also included in the proceedings.
- Planning Analysis Tools for Operations/ITS Evaluation: Gap Study - A study has been recently undertaken to better understand the analysis tools that are available for evaluating ITS and operations projects and strategies in the transportation planning process. This study was undertaken to better understand the needs for analyzing operations/ITS projects in the planning process, the current capabilities, and the "gaps" in the capabilities of the tools that are currently available. The results of the "GAP Analysis" are summarized in the following technical memorandums:
- Planning and Operations Fall 2005 Analysis Tool User Survey Initial Results (PPT 133KB, DOC 57KB) - A survey of the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) was recently conducted by the FHWA to determine the types of tools being used to analyze operations and ITS projects and strategies in the transportation planning process.
- Statewide Opportunities for Integrating Operations, Safety and Multimodal Planning: A Reference Manual (HTML, PDF 1.8MB) - This publication is a reference manual designed to provide "how to" information to assist transportation professionals in taking actions to integrate these activities. It identifies and describes opportunities at various levels of decisionmaking - statewide, regional, corridor, and project - and the benefits of these approaches. It also highlights overarching themes such as the important role of multidisciplinary teams; data collection, sharing, and analysis; and broad use of performance measures within each of these levels. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-028, May 2010.
- The State of Transportation: Findings from the Transportation Research Board's 2004 Field Visit Program - This report summarizes information gleaned from the TRB staff visits program during 2004. The summary also includes boxed reports on three areas of emphasis: performance measures, succession planning, and national parks and public lands.
- The Use of Operations Objectives and Performance Measures in Private and Public Organizations (HTML, PDF 82KB) - This paper examines lessons and insights from private companies and public organizations that may apply to agencies in the United States working to advance transportation planning for operations using a strategic approach. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-10-029, February 2010.
- Travel Time Reliability: Making It There On Time, All The Time - Travel time reliability is an increasing concern of travelers, shippers, and businesses. Recent advances in data collection mean that travel time reliability can now be quantified. This report provides guidance in answering questions such as: What is travel time reliability? Why is travel time reliability important? What measures are used to quantify travel time reliability? What are the steps for developing travel time reliability measures? Are there case studies illustrating steps to calculate reliability measures? Who is using reliability measures?
- VDOT CEDAR GIS Application - Virginia DOT's Comprehensive Environmental Data and Reporting (CEDAR) system. Virginia DOT has integrated GIS into its planning process. CEDAR is used to catalogue transportation and natural resource data for use in transportation geospatial applications.
Regional Concept for Transportation Operations
- Getting More by Working Together - Opportunities for Linking Planning and Operations: A Reference Manual (HTML, PDF 5MB) - This resource guide is designed to help planning and operations managers understand the value of working together and realize the benefits of pursuing management and operations strategies at the regional scale.
- Primer on Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination – This primer was written for transportation professionals and public safety officials from cities, counties, and States who are responsible for day-to-day management and operations within a metropolitan region. It is intended to help agencies and organizations, and the operations people within them, understand the importance of regional collaboration and coordination, how it happens, and how to get started. This document may also be of interest to agencies such as metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) already involved in regional collaborative efforts by helping them build on previous success.
- Regional Concept for Transportation Operations: A Tool for Strengthening and Guiding Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination (HTML, DOC 205KB) - This paper focuses what a Regional Concept for Transportation Operations is, what it can look like, its benefits, and its important role in creating an opportunity for regional transportation operations collaboration and coordination to flourish.
- 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.
- 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 ITS Architecture
- Elements of a Comprehensive Signals Asset Management System - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration has released a report designed to define the elements of a comprehensive signal system asset management system (SSAMS). The report reviews signal systems asset management, highlights characteristics of signal systems that need to be considered in defining an asset management approach, develops an architecture for a signal system asset management system, and presents an analysis illustrating how such a system could be used to evaluate tradeoffs across different options for addressing signal system deficiencies. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-05-006, December 2004.
- Florida's ITS Planning Guidelines: Integration of ITS into the Transportation Planning Process (PDF 617KB) - This report provides general direction to local and state planners for why, when, and how to consider ITS, as well as what ITS applications to consider.
- Incorporating ITS Solutions Into The Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process: Overcoming Institutional Barriers (PDF 109KB) - This report documents the results of an FHWA research study, held to review how the consideration of ITS solutions has been incorporated into metropolitan transportation planning processes and to document processes that were implemented successfully and can be duplicated by agencies in other metropolitan areas.
- Institutional and Organizational Factors for the Successful Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): International Comparisons (PDF 111KB) - This paper compares European and US experiences to explore critical institutional and organizational factors contributing to successful deployment of ITS.
- Intelligent Transportation System Architecture and Standards: Final Rule (PDF 246KB) - 23 CFR Parts 655 and 940.
- Next Generation 9-1-1 System Preliminary Concept of Operations (PDF 1.4MB) - The Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative is a DOT research and development project to define the system architecture and develop a transition plan that considers responsibilities, costs, schedule and benefits for deploying IP-based emergency services across the Nation. This document provides a preliminary Concept of Operations for the system.
- Regional ITS Architecture Guidance - Developing, Using, and Maintaining an ITS Architecture for Your Region (Updated 2006 Version) (HTML, PDF 6.9MB) - The Regional Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Architecture Guidance Document is written for those involved in the development, use, or maintenance of regional ITS architectures. It describes a process for creating a regional ITS architecture with supporting examples of each product and discusses mainstreaming ITS into the planning and project development processes. This update expands upon the topics of Using and Maintaining a regional ITS architecture.
- Saving Lives Through Advanced Vehicle Safety Technology: Intelligent Vehicle Initiative Final Report - This report presents the history of intelligent transportation initiative (IVI) and its successes, as well as how this initiative evolved over time. References are provided at the end of the document for those seeking detailed technical reports on the specific projects and topics discussed. December 2005, Publication Number: FHWA-JPO-05-057.
- Telecommunications Handbook for Transportation Professionals: The Basics of Telecommunications - This FHWA handbook was created to provide individuals responsible for managing and implementing Traffic Signal, and Freeway Management programs with an understanding of the basic technologies of telecommunications. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-04-034.
- The National Academies' Geographic Information Center - To help foster a better understanding of the many uses of geographic information - from urban planning to safe navigation to disaster relief - the National Academies has launched the Geographic Information Center, a website that organizes the Academies' body of work on the subject. The new website provides updates on the latest projects, reports, and events on geographic information topics, and also features case studies and other highlights of reports. January 2005.
Regional Transportation Systems Management and Operations
- Arterial Management
- Congestion Mitigation
- Corridor Traffic Management
- Emergency Transportation Operations
- Facilitating Integrated ITS Deployment
- Freeway Management
- Freight Analysis
- Freight Operations and Technology
- Freight Professional Development
- Freight Operations and Technology
- Operations Asset Management
- Performance Measurement
- Planned Special Events Traffic Management
- Real Time Traveler Information
- Road Weather Management
- Tolling and Pricing Program
- Traffic Analysis Tools
- Traffic Incident Management
- Travel Demand Management
- Vehicle Size and Weight
- Work Zone Management
Additional Regional Transportation Systems Management and Operations Publications
- A Guidebook for Including Access Management in Transportation Planning (PDF 834KB) - This report (NCHRP Report 548) offers guidance for implementing access management through the transportation planning process.
- A Regional HOV System Planning Approach Involving Multiple Agencies (PDF 58KB) - This paper presents the Texas DOT's HOV planning framework for the Austin region, highlighting both the technical and the policy-related elements of the process. Included in the paper are descriptions of a number of features of the process: a multi-agency interlocal agreement for HOV system planning; a regional HOV Task Force comprised of technical staff from participating agencies to support and compliment Major Investment Studies (MIS) on specific corridors; inter-agency review teams for each MIS; and the use of research results from other communities as a basis for technical decisions and for the development of public education/awareness tools.
- Chapter 2: What have we learned about freeway, incident, and emergency management and electronic toll collection? (PDF 109KB) - Electronic toll collection (ETC) systems similarly aid in reducing congestion on toll roads. In a complementary way, emergency management systems can greatly aid in locating incidents and responding to them in the most rapid and effective manner possible. Each of the ITS technologies discussed in this paper shows potential benefits; however, only a few of the technologies have reached widespread deployment.
- Collaborative Research on Road Weather Observations & Predictions by Universities, State DOTs & National Weather Service Forecast Offices - This report documents the results of five research projects to improve the sensing, predictions and use of weather-related road conditions in road maintenance and operations. Publication No. FHWA-HRT-04-109 September 2004.
- Creating an Effective Program to Advance Transportation System Management and Operations: Primer (HTML, PDF 3.1MB) - The purpose of this Primer is to raise awareness of the opportunities for improving the effectiveness of State and local Transportation System Management and Operations (TSM&O) activities. The Primer provides high-level guidance focused on key program, process, and organizational capabilities that are essential to the development of more effective TSM&O strategy applications. It is aimed at program and activity-level managers responsible for TSM&O related activities in State, regional, and local transportation agencies. (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-12-003, January 2012)
- Elements of a Comprehensive Signals Asset Management System - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration has released a report designed to define the elements of a comprehensive signal system asset management system (SSAMS). The report reviews signal systems asset management, highlights characteristics of signal systems that need to be considered in defining an asset management approach, develops an architecture for a signal system asset management system, and presents an analysis illustrating how such a system could be used to evaluate tradeoffs across different options for addressing signal system deficiencies. Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-05-006, December 2004.
- Improving Mobility and Accessibility with Managed Lanes, Pricing, and BRT - This report documents the proceedings of the 12th International HOV Systems Conference: Improving Mobility and Accessibility with Managed Lanes, Pricing, and BRT held in Houston, Texas on April 18–20, 2005. The proceedings summarize the presentations from the plenary sessions and the breakout sessions. The plenary sessions included presentations on the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) system in the Houston area, updates on national activities, and future trends in managing mobility.
- Incident Management Successful Practices: A Cross-Cutting Study (PDF 1.01MB) - This document provides a series of successful practices on managing traffic incidents.
- Influence of Transportation Infrastructure on Land Use, Federal Highway Administration Urban Land Institute Workshop - Often cited as the reason for suburban sprawl, roadway projects frequently are opposed by members of the general public, who assume that if roads are built, development will always follow. The support for this assumption is most often anecdotal, and the FHWA does not believe this is always true. Other factors, such as local and regional land use and economic development policies, also play an important role in suburban growth. The Federal Highway Administration asked ULI to convene a group of real estate and planning professionals to provide a better understanding of the correlations between the approval of transportation infrastructure projects and local land use patterns. ULI conducted an Advisory Services workshop titled "Location Decision Making: The Role of Transportation Infrastructure."
- Institutional Issues Discussion Paper (DOC 62KB) - Traffic incident management is the planning and coordination of people and material resources to safely address and quickly clear disruptions and distortions to the flow of traffic on our nation's highways. Traffic incident management encompasses the development and application of specific practices and tools, often involving the careful interaction of multiple agencies and functions. Despite the fact that much of the discussion about traffic incident management focuses on operations and technology, there is widespread agreement that significant improvements require departures from "business as usual". The "institutional" changes go beyond improved practice in the field. This paper discusses the issues involved in making these institutional changes.
- Learning from the 2003 Blackout - Article from the September/October 2004 issue of Public Roads on how transportation agencies responded to the 2003 Northeast Blackout. The article was developed from a series of case studies produced by the Volpe Center for FHWA Office of Operations and the U.S. DOT's ITS Joint Program Office.
- Managing Demand Through Travel Information Services - The brochure highlights the opportunities and benefits for using traveler information services to manage demand during periods of congestion, including congestion during commute periods, special events, and emergencies. The brochure aims to provide ideas for the use of traveler information in states, regions, and communities. The brochure presents the diversity of traveler information systems employed around the country and overseas and how agencies are using traveler information as a demand management tool.
- National Response Plan - The National Response Plan standardizes federal incident response actions by integrating existing and formerly disparate processes. The Plan uses the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to establish standardized training, organization, and communications procedures for multi-jurisdictional interaction and clearly identifies authority and leadership responsibilities. The Plan also provides a comprehensive framework for private and non-profit institutions to plan and integrate their own preparedness and response activities, nationally and within their own communities.
- Next Generation 9-1-1 System Preliminary Concept of Operations (PDF 1.4MB) - The Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative is a DOT research and development project to define the system architecture and develop a transition plan that considers responsibilities, costs, schedule and benefits for deploying IP-based emergency services across the Nation. This document provides a preliminary Concept of Operations for the system.
- Planning Analysis Tools for Operations/ITS Evaluation: Gap Study - A study has been recently undertaken to better understand the analysis tools that are available for evaluating ITS and operations projects and strategies in the transportation planning process. This study was undertaken to better understand the needs for analyzing operations/ITS projects in the planning process, the current capabilities, and the "gaps" in the capabilities of the tools that are currently available. The results of the "GAP Analysis" are summarized in the following technical memorandums:
- Planning and Operations Fall 2005 Analysis Tool User Survey Initial Results (PPT 133KB, DOC 57KB) - A survey of the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) was recently conducted by the FHWA to determine the types of tools being used to analyze operations and ITS projects and strategies in the transportation planning process.
- Ramp Management and Control Handbook - The purpose of this handbook is to improve the operation of freeways and their associated ramps by providing support, information, guidance, and recommended practice to practitioners responsible for freeway management and operations. Publication No. FHWA-HOP-06-01, January 2006.
- Saving Lives Through Advanced Vehicle Safety Technology: Intelligent Vehicle Initiative Final Report - This report presents the history of intelligent transportation initiative (IVI) and its successes, as well as how this initiative evolved over time. References are provided at the end of the document for those seeking detailed technical reports on the specific projects and topics discussed. December 2005, Publication Number: FHWA-JPO-05-057.
- Simplified Guide to the Incident Command System for Transportation Professionals - The purpose of this Simplified Guide is to introduce the Incident Command System to stakeholders who may be called upon to provide specific expertise, assistance, or material during highway incidents but who may be largely unfamiliar with ICS organization and operations.
- Statewide Multimodal Transportation Planning Proceedings: 2004 Peer Exchange TRB Transportation Research Circular E-C082 – This report focuses on cost estimating for transportation planning and incorporating safety into the transportation planning process. It provides an overview of the presentation and roundtable discussions that took place during the peer exchange on July 27-28, 2004, in Park City, Utah. The report also includes responses to questions on statewide multimodal transportation planning from state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations.
- 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.
- The Freight Technology Story: Intelligent Freight Technologies and Their Benefits - This report discusses advancements in information technologies and telecommunications that have improved the efficiency, reliability, and security of freight transportation and increased global connectivity. It also describes how these technologies work and the benefits they deliver, including the results from intelligent freight technology field operational tests (FOTs) and other initiatives.
- The Role of Transportation Systems Management & Operations in Supporting Livability and Sustainability: A Primer - This primer describes the role of transportation systems management and operations (M&O) in advancing livability and sustainability. The document highlights the connections between M&O and livability and sustainability objectives and the importance of a balanced, comprehensive approach to M&O in order to support those objectives. (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-12-004, January 2012)
- Transportation Evacuation Planning and Operations Workshop - This workshop was held in New Orleans, LA, on March 21-22, in conjunction with the 2005 National Hurricane Conference. Nearly 35 individuals attended the workshop. The workshop objectives were to: (1) Share updates on transportation plans, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) deployments, and institutional arrangements associated with transportation operations during hurricanes. (2) Discuss the Evacuation Liaison Program and identify areas for improvements/refinements. (3) Share information about upcoming activities and conferences supportive of transportation operations.
- Transportation Management and Security During the 2004 Democratic National Convention - A case study examining the management and operations of the transportation during the 2004 Democratic National Convention held in Boston, MA.
- VDOT CEDAR GIS application - Virginia DOT's Comprehensive Environmental Data and Reporting (CEDAR) system. Virginia DOT has integrated GIS into its planning process. CEDAR is used to catalogue transportation and natural resource data for use in transportation geospatial applications.
- Work Zone Public Information and Outreach Strategies - This Guide provides tips, examples, strategies and practices to help transportation agencies plan and implement effective public information and outreach campaigns for work zones.
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