Performance-Based Planning
The Performance-Based Planning focus area page is a one-stop shop for resources about performance-based
planning and performance measures on the TPCB website. It includes links to publications,
legislation and guidance, recent peer events, upcoming calendar events, and related websites.
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 Advancing
Metropolitan Planning for Operations: An Objectives-Driven, Performance-Based Approach - A
Guidebook - This guidebook presents an approach for integrating management and
operations strategies into the metropolitan transportation planning process that is designed
to maximize the performance of the existing and planned transportation system.
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Non-Traditional Performance Measures - The American Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials' Standing Committee on Planning has released a report that explores how state departments
of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and public transportation agencies
use non-traditional performance measures in their transportation planning and decision-making
processes.
- Outcomes-Based, Performance-Driven
Planning at Metro Portland - The Portland, Oregon region completed its new metropolitan
transportation plan, 2035 Regional Transportation Plan, in June of 2010 under the direction
of Metro, the metropolitan planning organization for the region. With this plan comes a new
approach for metropolitan planning in this region that is focused on desired outcomes and
measurable performance. In response to growing economic and climate change concerns, the region's
elected leaders chose an outcomes-based framework with policy-level performance targets to
guide investments and demonstrate measurable results. Metro has developed a broad set of measures
to evaluate the planned investment strategy in addressing the plan goals
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Transportation Performance Management: Insight from Practioners: NCHRP Report
660 - This guidebook provides insights from selected transportation agencies who are successfully
integrating transportation performance management programs into a range of key decision-making
processes in order to improve their effectiveness and transparency. This guidebook will assist
transportation agency staff challenged with turning performance data into meaningful information
that will influence agency decisions and actions. It should be of immediate use to those who
have mastered the basics of performance measurement but who will benefit from a deeper understanding
of what similar organizations have done in order to successfully integrate these systems into
key decision-making processes.
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Transportation Project Prioritization and Performance-based Planning Efforts in Rural and
Small Metropolitan Regions - This new NADO Research Foundation report provides an overview
of the state of the practice in non-metro regional transportation planning, including the
contract amounts, RPO tasks, and committee structures. The research also examines rural long-range
planning efforts and criteria used to rank regional priority projects. With case studies on
the statewide and regional planning processes in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Washington,
the document provides examples for rural and small metro regions looking to formalize their
planning process. This report was developed with support from the Federal Highway Administration.
- The Use of an Objectives-Driven,
Performance-Based Approach at the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission - CUUATS
first integrated the objectives-driven, performance-based approach into the development of
its MTP in 2001, with the development of its 2025 metropolitan transportation plan. In 2009
the MPO adopted its next MTP, Choices 2035, which used the approach to strategically plan
for improvements across all goal areas. CUUATS uses a combination of goals and objectives
to define the desired outcomes of Choices 2035, MOEs to track progress, and strategies to
realize the objectives.
- The Use of
Operations Objectives and Performance Measures in Private and Public Organizations - 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.
- Click here to access a full list of
Legislation, Regulations, and Guidance related to performance-based planning on the TPCB
website.
- Recent publications on performance-based planning:
To find existing publications and resources on performance-based planning or to add new ones,
visit the TPCB Resource Index.
- Upcoming conferences and webinars related to performance-based transportation planning:
To browse all existing events on the TPCB website or to add new ones, please visit the
events calendar or the TPCB Resource Index.
The TPCB peer program is a free resource for agencies in need of transportation planning assistance.
Visit the peer program page to learn more or apply for a peer event.
- Performance Based Planning
and Programming
- Congestion Management
Process
- Planning for Operations - This website contains
numerous resources to help planners and operators gain insight into the links between the
two fields. This site has a resource library of documents, presentations, and reports on current
practices. It also contains a toolbox that gives examples of best practices, a calendar of
upcoming relevant events, as well as a listing of courses that span the two disciplines.
- TRB Performance Measurement Exchange
Site - This site allows people with common interests, goals or expertise to share their
experiences and knowledge, collaborate on work, identify and exchange best practices and advance
the state-of-the-art in their field. This site allows visitors to contribute their thoughts
and ideas in an open forum.
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Washington State DOT Performance Measurement Library - Washington State DOT (WSDOT)is
not alone in using performance measurement and strategic planning to promote accountability.
Almost every state uses strategic planning in one form or another, and all DOTs use performance
measurements at various programmatic levels. To help practitioners make effective comparisons
of measures and reporting systems, WSDOT maintains a list of 51 state, commonwealth, and federal
district transportation authorities and their online performance measurement and strategic
planning mechanisms.
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MoDOT Tracker - MoDOT's Tracker is a tool to assess how well we deliver services and products
to our customers. Much like a GPS tracking system, this tool can only show the direction in
which the department is headed. We must determine if it is going in the right direction to
best serve our customers. Lessons Learned from Maryland SHA.
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DOT State Stats - State Stats is an online pathfinder to transportation publications and
reports. It harnesses the Internet by encouraging agencies to post and identify their own
key state performance resources. It can help administrators interested in benchmarking, and
it can help researchers find unique data. Idaho Transportation Dept Dashboard.
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TRB Committee on Performance Measurement (ABC30) - The TRB committee supports the development
and use of performance measurement and performance management across all modes of transportation,
public and private, including passenger and freight transportation systems.This committee
also promotes the use of performance measurement in all aspects of an organization's responsibilities
to support public accountability and effective systems management. This includes planning,
programming, budgeting, program and service delivery, and system operations. Performance Measures
and Targets for Transportation Asset Management-Current state of practice; includes a framework
for identifying performance measures and setting target values.
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