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This presentation is intended to provide an introduction to the concepts behind the Collaborative Planning System, a technique based on lean methodologies. It also includes guidance for implementing and enhancing the Collaborative Planning System.

Transit Economic Requirements Model (TERM)–Local Investment Tool Edition (Lite), TERM For Agency Long Range Capital Planning. Presented at the Third State of Good Repair Roundtable

Objective: To develop a guide for state DOTs and other transportation agencies to use to measure the sustainability of their networks, systems, facilities, projects, and activities, at the appropriate scales, stages (long-range planning, programming, project development, design, construction, maintenance, operations), and time frames.

Objective: To create guidelines for evaluation and performance measurement of congestion pricing projects that are designed to optimize the use of available roadway capacity, to help agencies select or develop appropriate performance measures, collect the necessary data, track performance, and communicate the results to decision makers, users, and the general public.

AASHTO’s Standing Committee on Performance Management. (SCOPM) members held a two-day meeting in October 2010 to discuss specific measures that should be proposed for adoption by AASHTO and research needed before adoption can be considered. The research team is providing professional services to support continuing discussion and report on results. A report of the October meeting and subsequent discussions at the AASHTO 2010 Annual Meeting was prepared. Additional action by SCOPM and possibly the AASHTO Board of Directors is anticipated to result from this work.

The objectives of this research were to (1) describe a comprehensive framework and set of methods (a) to analyze opportunities to improve the multiple-objective performance of transportation systems within the context of broader societal goals and (b) to set specific performance targets to guide agency policies, plans, and programs; (2) detail the factors that influence target setting and the success of performance-based resource allocation systems and explain how agencies may successfully design, implement, and use such systems; and (3) analyze the data and information needs, data acquisition and management systems, and institutional relationships required to support successful performance-based resource allocation systems.

The objective of this project is to identify measures to gauge the performance of the freight transportation system. The measures should support investment, operations, and policy decisions by a range of stakeholders, both public and private, and reflect local, regional, national, and global perspectives. Areas of emphasis should include, but not be limited to, efficiency, effectiveness, capacity, safety, security, infrastructure condition, congestion, energy, and environmen

In 2010, NCHRP Project 20-24(37)F was initiated to consider establishment of a consistent, central infrastructure to store, manage and provide access to the data collected under the CPM series of projects. The scope of this project was to develop a conceptual framework and functional description of such an infrastructure, and develop a strategy for implementing and ongoing stewardship and management. This report presents the results of this project.

"The initial premise behind the project was to use available state Departments of Transportation (DOT) data on traffic incident response performance to provide a time series / cross section- sectional analysis of incident response performance, which could be measured based on average, median, or maximum incident response time, total incident duration or incident clearance time. The idea was that a cross-state comparison and examination of changes in performance over time might identify best practices that could be instrumental in reducing incident duration with associated benefits to travelers.
For reasons explained in this research report, the primary emphasis of this project shifted to one of developing specific recommendations that could improve Traffic Incident Management (TIM) performance measurement. While this research did result in a cross-state comparison for some of the participating agencies, the lack of standardization in collection and use of nationally adopted TIM performance measures made it difficult to draw definitive conclusions as to how the agencies are performing with respect to one another. What the research did yield is a set of recommendations that will be useful in enhancing existing agency TIM data collection and reporting efforts and the possible development of a standard approach to TIM performance data collection that will allow future efforts at cross-comparison to yield results that are consistent and more readily comparable."

Improving travel time reliability is an emerging business activity for transportation agencies in the United States. To improve the reliability of travel times on their roadway networks, transportation agencies must advance on a number of fronts. These include collecting and analyzing data; integrating travel time reliability considerations into planning, programming, and project delivery; adopting innovative operational strategies and technologies; and modifying their institutional structures and business practices surrounding traffic operations. This report addresses various ways that transportation agencies can reengineer their day-to-day business practices to improve traffic operations, address nonrecurring traffic congestion, and improve the reliability of travel times delivered to roadway system users. The report is based on a series of case studies, mainly from the United States, that describe successful business processes.

The objectives of this research were to (1) recommend precise definitions for selected performance measures identified as potentially feasible and practical for early deployment nationwide, (2) recommend methodology and standards for collection and use of data to support reporting of performance using these measures for at least a state’s National Highway System (NHS) roads, (3) articulate the issues to be resolved to enable nationwide deployment of these initial performance measures and suggest a deployment plan, and (4) consider how usable measures may be developed to address all nationally-important aspects of performance.

This webpage provides information about Colorado DOT's full incorporation of Lean principles into its Department of Regulatory Agencies.