STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: UPDATE ON CURRENT ISSUES AND RESEARCH

This Transportation Research Circular focuses on planning productivity--or how to increase it. This is a major concern of TRB Committee A1D03 and has led to the creation of the Subcommittee on Planning Productivity, chaired by Harvey Atchison. The diminished financial resources available for most (or all) state department of transportation activities have prompted numerous efforts to increase coordination and cooperation among organizational units and their data-analysis capabilities. These efforts have ranged from major restructurings of state transportation departments and highway departments to the consolidation of computerized data files. Actually, we are only now beginning to understand the ways in which the productivity of planning staff can be increased. One obvious means is through the increased use of computers--from main-frames to micros. A second way is through better and more economic collection, storage, and updating of data, with zero duplication. Other approaches may include better staff organization, more discriminating choices about what to plan, and more carefully organized communications. A few examples of attempts to increase statewide planning productivity are summarized here. They provide valuable guidance, insight, and ideas that other areas may find helpful. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Creighton, R L
• Publication Date: 1982-9

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 5 p.
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: 248
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Economic efficiency; Improvements; Information processing; Productivity; State departments of transportation; Transportation operations; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Old TRIS Terms: Transportation administration
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00368269
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 30 1982 12:00AM