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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 528: Analyzing Data for Measuring Transportation Performance by State DOTs and MPOs summarizes what data state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are using and how they are measuring transportation performance. Knowledge about transportation data already exists, but may be fragmented, scattered, and unevaluated. This report synthesizes current knowledge and practice about data management to help transportation organizations learn about effective practices. The report also identifies future research needs."--Publisher's description.
This synthesis will be of interest to state transportation agency administrators, division and functional area managers, program managers, financial and human resources personnel, and others, including state legislators, who are concerned with implementing innovative programs in state departments of transportation (DOTs). It presents information on the degree to which state DOTs have developed and implemented performance measures in all transport modes for which they are responsible. With the advent of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), as well as pressure from state governments for greater accountability of state funds, DOTs are increasingly endeavoring to develop performance measures to improve their productivity, and to respond to outside demands from state government and the public. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes how performance measures have evolved in state DOTs, the types of initiatives that have been developed, and the effectiveness of such measures in assessing performance and improving productivity, as perceived by the DOTs.
This guidebook is intended to help state departments of transportation (DOTs) develop their own tailored and comprehensive Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) performance measurement programs. Users are most likely to be practitioners in state transportation agencies that are actively attempting to integrate the principles of CSS within their project delivery processes. The approaches discussed in the guidebook are suitable both for agencies that are just beginning the use of CSS on a handful of projects and those that are implementing CSS for all projects. No list of individual measures is provided in the guidebook - nor do most practitioners who participated in its preparation recommend such an approach. Rather a framework for organizing measures is described, and key focus areas for measurement are discussed. Agencies are expected to develop their own individual measures that are tailored to specific needs. The four major sections of the guidebook, following the introduction, are as follows: Guiding Concepts for CSS Performance Measurement Programs; Project-level Focus Areas; Organization-wide Focus Areas; and Tips for Getting Started. An appendix to this guide contains a variety of relevant performance measures-related material gathered during the course of the guidebook and referenced in the body of the text. Users are encouraged to pick and choose the components of the framework and measure focus areas that make sense for their state. The guidebook should be considered as a resource for helping develop measurement programs that are tailored to individual states. Finally, the framework and focus areas described in this guidebook represent the state of current thinking among practitioners, but this is a fast evolving field and the practices described are merely a foundation for future efforts to measure performance that build on advances in CSS implementation.
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.
"RB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) RRD 361: State DOT Public Transportation Performance Measures: State of the Practice and Future Needs includes information on performance measures and performance management approaches that may be used by state departments of transportation (DOTs) in relation to public transportation programs"--Publisher's description.