Integrated Corridor Management, Managed Lanes, and Congestion Pricing: A Primer | Research Report
System PerformanceThis primer examines how congestion pricing can be integrated into an integrated corridor management (ICM) approach. It defines the needs of ICM stakeholders and the benefits of congestion pricing in realizing effective ICM, explores opportunities to effectively integrate congestion pricing on institutional, operational, and technical levels, both by leveraging existing applications and considering new options; and identifies the major challenges to integrating ICM and congestion pricing, along with potential solutions. In addition, it provides real-world examples of integrating congestion pricing with the ICM approach. While there are limited examples of integrating ICM with congestion pricing strategies at the time of writing, the lessons learned from the current integration attempts may provide valuable input and direction to future attempts.
Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
Washington State Department of Transportation's Gray Notebook: September 2016 | Research Report
Safety, System PerformanceWSDOT's quarterly performance report including updates on agency programming, policy goals, and new initiatives.
Publisher: Washington State Department of Transportation
Iowa DOT TAMP 2016 | Plan
Asset Management, Bridge, PavementIowa DOT’s initial TAMP, describes how Iowa DOT manages its bridges and pavements throughout their lives, providing a framework that will guide funding decisions across Iowa DOT districts, divisions, bureaus, and offices. Sections covered in the plan include bridge management, pavement management, financial plan, risk management, investment strategies, and asset management implementation.
Publisher: Iowa Department of Transportation
October 2016 Lean Forum Powerpoint | Presentation, Research Report
This presentation from the October 2016 Lean Forum includes specific presentations from the State of Illinois, New Brunswick DOT and Infrastructure, Colorado DOT, and SCOPM Organizational Excellence Task Force.
Integrating Climate Change Resilience into Transportation Asset Management | Document
TRB held a webinar to focus on strategies for incorporating climate change and extreme weather risk into asset management programming. The webinar featured presentations from FHWA, the University of Delaware, WSP-Parsons Brinkerhoff, ICF International, and the North Central Texas Council of Governments.
NCHRP Synthesis 494: Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Management of Highway Assets | Research Report
Asset Management, PavementThis 2016 synthesis report presents a comprehensive scan of current methods and approaches to life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) within highway agencies. The report features a literature review and individual case studies. It also includes the results of an agency survey.
No Boundaries Survey Results: Maintenance Management Systems | Research Report
Many state departments of transportation (DOTs) use a maintenance management system (MMS) to manage roadway maintenance activities. At some agencies, the MMS is part of a department-wide asset
management system. The MMS may also be linked with other agency systems and databases, such as human resources or financial systems.
To learn more about state DOTs’ use of maintenance management systems, in July 2016 the No Boundaries pooled fund project sent an online survey to maintenance representatives in all 50 states. The survey questions were designed to build on previous surveys conducted by Iowa DOT (February 2016) and Montana DOT (March 2014, through the AASHTO Research Advisory Committee).
Assessing Risk for Bridge Management (NCHRP 20-07 (378)) | Guide/Manual, Research Report
Asset Management, BridgeThe objective of this research is to develop proposed AASHTO guidelines for a data-driven risk assessment at the bridge and structure level. The guidelines considered risks from natural and man-made hazards and aimed to be useful in a bridge management system.
September 2016 Lean Forum Powerpoint | Presentation, Research Report
This presentation from the September 2016 Transportation Lean Forum includes detailed presentations on Lean Transformation, Organizational Excellence Task Force, Bureau of Innovations, and Lean Interchange forum updates.
ITD District Four Signal Light Innovation | Research Report
SafetyThis video from the Idaho Transportation Department describes an innovative signal light best practice that allows practitioners to maintain and repair signal lights efficiently.
Publisher: Idaho Transportation Department
Planning for Transportation Systems Management and Operations within Corridors: A Desk Reference | Research Report
SafetyThis Desk Reference is designed to equip State, regional, and local transportation operations and planning professionals with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively plan for and implement transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) within a corridor. Its purpose is to support transportation planners and operations staff to plan for and apply TSMO activities within corridors to achieve a more reliable, efficient, and livable outcome from their existing and planned transportation infrastructure. This document highlights a planning for operations approach at a corridor level to focus on issues, such as mobility, reliability, and safety, from a multimodal perspective and provides a variety of tools to advance TSMO within corridors.
Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
Development of a Risk Register Spreadsheet Tool | Document
This document provides an explanation of the steps taken to develop the risk register tool. The research team conducted a survey of current practices for risk management across state DOTs, international agencies, and non-transportation organizations. Then they built a draft tool and received user feedback before finalizing the tool.