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U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20590
In Reply Refer To: HEPP-1
Dear Colleague:
The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty, in collaboration with the FHWA Office of Operations and the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Office of Planning and Environment, has developed two new products to advance the Congestion Management Process (CMP). These two products, The Congestion Management Process: A Guidebook and a summary report Showcasing Visualization Tools in Congestion Management, have been developed to act as a companion package of documents and reflect strong, continuing collaboration among FHWA, FTA, and professionals in metropolitan transportation planning processes nationwide
These documents stand as products of FHWA's and FTA's on-going effort to provide assistance in implementing key provisions of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users. These documents do not create new requirements, but merely provide suggested approaches for integrating the CMP into metropolitan transportation planning processes.
We look forward to receiving your feedback, reactions, and experiences in implementing these concepts and utilizing these resources. Please direct any comments, questions, and suggestions to Egan Smith at egan.smith@dot.gov or (202-366-6072); or John Sprowls at john.sprowls@dot.gov or (202-366-5362).
Sincerely yours,
James A. Cheatham, Director
FHWA Office of Planning
Charles Goodman, Director
FTA Office of Systems Planning
Report No.
FHWA-HEP-11-011
Governement Accession No.
Recipient's Catalog No.
Title and Subtitle
Congestion Management Process: A Guidebook
Report Date
April 2011
Performing Organization Code
Authors
Michael Grant (ICF), Beverly Bowen (ICF), Matthew Day (ICF), Robert Winick (Motion Maps), Jocelyn Bauer (SAIC), Anna Chavis (ICF), Stephanie Trainor (ICF)
Performing Organization Report No.
Performing Organization Name and Adress
ICF International, Inc.
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, VA 22031
Motion Maps, LLC
1424 Fallswood Drive
Rockville, MD 20854
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
8301 Greensboro Drive
McLean, VA 22102
Work Unit No. (TRAIS)
Contract or Grant No.
DTFH61-09-Q-00083
Sponsoring Agency Name and Address
United States Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
Washington, DC 20590
Type of Report and Period Covered
September 2009-April 2011
Sponsoring Agency Code
HEP
Supplementory Notes
Mr. Egan Smith, Federal Highway Administration, COTR
Abstract
This publication is a guidebook designed to provide information on how to create an objectives-driven, performance-based congestion management process (CMP). This guidebook describes a flexible framework of 8 actions that should be included in the development of a CMP. It also highlights the role of the CMP in addressing multiple objectives, including livability, multimodal transportation, linkages with environmental review, collaboration with partners and stakeholders, demand management and operations strategies, and effective practices for documentation and visualization.
Key Words
Congestion management process, transportation operations, performance-based, objectives-driven, performance measures, planning for operations, regional goals and objectives, operations data, visualization, multimodal, metropolitan planning, data collection
Distribution Statement
No restrictions. This document is available to the public from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161.
Security Classif. (of this report)
Unclassified
Security Classif. (of this page)
Unclassified
No. of Pages
68
Price
N/A
Form DOT F 1700.7 (8-72)
Reproduction of completed page authorized.
This document was developed with input from many individuals from metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) across the country, and active participation and support from the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO). FHWA and FTA would specifically like to thank the following individuals for their contributions that helped to shape this document:
