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Title A Guidebook for Performance‐Based Transportation Planning
Authors Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Sponsor Transportation Research Board, NCHRP 446
Date 2000
Pages 116
Category Economic Performance Measures, Decision Making, Modes: All
Note To Index: http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=675635
Online http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_446.pdf
Summary This report provides a framework for performance‐based, multi‐modal planning and
describes the evaluation and monitoring of transportation performance in various
stages of the planning process. NCHRP 446 provides useful information on transport
and freight data collection, such as manual goods movement surveillance and manual
traffic and vehicle surveillance and different type of techniques and models in use at
the time of the study. It addresses the need for economic measures, but this is not the
focus of the guidebook.
The report identifies best practices by planning functions in terms of congestion
management, intermodal access, truck route designation and maintenance, safety
mitigation and economic development. It contains a wealth of information including 9
case studies of performance measurement and application in state Departments of
Transportation and MPOs throughout the United States on performance based
measures within its appendix. One case study conducted in Portland, Oregon concluded
that implementation of performance based approaches will increase the time to
evaluate and reach decisions, and stressed the importance of stakeholder involvement
in order to measure the performance.
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