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This plan describes the maintenance, operations, and intended improvements of the state highways in New Zealand. The plan is mostly concerned with the demands on the various programs and infrastructures that New Zealand transit overseas. It also describes the challenges of bringing a management plan into actual use in everyday work in order to maximize the value of such a plan.

This NCHRP report supplements NCHRP report 666 “Target-Setting Methods and Data Management to Support Performance-Based Resource Allocation by Transportation Agencies.” It functions as a resource on how transportation agencies can use risk and data management to improve resource allocation and to set performance targets. The report also contains advice that may be of interest of the management of agencies, and also contains case studies about effective data and risk management for performance-based resource allocation.

The Australian National Risk Assessment Model (ANRAM) helps identify and manage risk on roadways. Both fatal and severe crash risk hazards are identified, and the risk is managed through programs that reduce the crash risk through the road system. The report details the development of ANARM, and also serves as a guide to implement the model on a practical level.

Departments of Transportation (DOTs) face myriad risks both in long term planning and in the day-to-day functions of the agency. This report describes how the leadership at DOTs currently implement risk management protocols, and to identify which strategies were most effective. A survey of state DOTs was constructed to both identify the perceptions of risk and risk management and to detail the effect those risk management practices how the on the agency's strategic goals.

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) 2035 Statewide Transportation Plan was amended to maintain consistency with regional planning processes and to serve as a bridge between the 2035 Plan and the next plan update set for adoption by 2015. Given economic and financial uncertainties, CDOT and its planning partners determined that an amendment to the existing plan would enable CDOT to achieve best achieve transportation goals and use limited resources wisely.\

The 2011 amended plan is linked.

This digital booklet provides information intended for road safety professionals about how to effectively promote road safety in Canada. It details Canada’s Road Safety Strategy (RSS), which emphasizes the primary risk groups, such as young drivers, drivers with medical conditions, vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and motorcyclists, and high risk drivers, such as aggressive drivers including speeders, impaired drivers, or those who do not wear seat restraints. The booklet contains a wealth of data on road accidents both in and outside Canada.

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.