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This document is a sample intergovernmental agreement form created by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), which includes the terms of a performance data management plan to which IDOT, an MPO, and a Transit Provider would agree. It includes the rights and responsibilities of each participating organization, data-sharing obligations, target-setting processes, and performance reporting targets.

This report, the second of a two-part research effort, sought to determine how to improve the effectiveness of safety programs and safety culture at CDOT. Researchers consulted with senior safety officials to craft survey questions, which were distributed to field crews and supervisory personnel across all five CDOT regions. The survey received 470 responses, as well as 341 open-ended comments from workers on the safety culture at CDOT. Findings from the survey included mixed opinions on whether safety practices were actually changing within CDOT; while field crews indicated they were provided with proper safety equipment and felt comfortable discussing safety issues, but the crews also felt that their supervisors may not necessarily act on safety concerns. Based on the results of the survey, it is recommended that CDOT not only continue to engage in the enhancement of its safety culture, but that it undertake a follow-up effort to better understand regional differences, and discrepancies between the perceptions of supervisors and field crew.

Organizations that want to get value from their data need to manage that data well. But to most executives, data management seems obscure, complicated, and highly technical. You don't have time to learn all the detail or cut through the hype. Navigating the Labyrinth helps you get there. Based on best practices from DAMA's Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK2), it explains the fundamentals and says why they are important. It focuses your attention on what you need to know to help your organization build trust in and get value out of its data.

This report presents guidelines to transportation agencies for the management of their assets related to return on investment. The details in the report rely upon the work conducted by the research team and their experiences. It is published alongside a spreadsheet tool which helps agencies evaluate their simulations of return on investment for TAM.

This research provides a framework for inventorying assets and for assessing the condition of ferry assets.

This international compendium shares best practices in the management and maintenance of roads across countries that are members of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program.

With all the recent rules coming from FHWA and FTA, transportation agencies need to understand what is applicable for them and by when. The new TPM Timeline Tool is a web-based interactive tool intended to help State DOTs, MPOs, and transit agencies understand and plan for their federally-required performance management activities. By interactively displaying all the applicable requirements on either a timeline or table, agencies can quickly visualize the requirements that are of interest to them and delve deeper into any of them. This tool used federal docket materials available as of October 2017 and was based on a Missouri DOT MAP-21/FAST Act Implementation Matrix. Check it out here.

This document is a pavement distress data quality management plan produced by the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT). It details the department's quality management approach, protocols, quality control procedures, and independent verification methods.

Crashes at intersections are one of the leading causes of highway fatalities. In 2014, intersection crashes alone resulted in 8,664 fatalities out of the 32,675 total roadway deaths that year. As a means to address traffic-related fatalities and injuries on the Nation’s roadways, the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Safety employs a focused approach to safety. This approach is built around three technical focus areas--roadway departures, intersections, and pedestrians/bicycles--and prioritizes resources and efforts to help States and local agencies address their road safety needs. More specifically, the Intersection Safety Program focuses on the many variables that influence safety at intersections, from behavioral factors and special users to intersection design and facility type.

One of the key tools that falls under this program is the Intersection Safety Implementation Plan (ISIP), which can be instrumental in helping transportation agencies reduce intersection-related traffic injuries and fatalities. States develop ISIPs as a way to include intersection safety in their Strategic Highway Safety Plan, either as a standalone emphasis area or integrated across various emphasis areas. Although a State’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan might identify some strategies for improving intersection safety, the ISIP establishes more detailed implementation activities, countermeasures, strategies, deployment levels, implementation steps, and required funding.

This document explains how State DOTs can develop financial planning processes to support development of their 10-year transportation asset management plans (TAMPs). The FHWA defines a TAMP financial plan as “a long- term plan spanning 10 years or longer, presenting a State DOT’s estimates of projected available financial resources and predicted expenditures in major asset categories that can be used to achieve State DOT targets for asset condition during the plan period, and highlighting how resources are expected to be allocated based on asset strategies, needs, shortfalls, and agency policies.”1 The TAMP financial plan describes the financial environment in which the agency expects to operate on an annual basis over the full time period covered by the TAMP.

This document provides guidance on the risk element of a risk-based transportation asset management plan (TAMP), defines risk, and provides guidance on how the risk element can be applied to meet the requirements of a risk-based TAMP.