TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMMING PROCESS

The steering committee summary, the summary of the workshops, and the formal papers presented at the conference on programming are presented here. The papers were as follows: Programming in Perspective; Federal Role in Programming; State Role in Programming; Local Role in Programming; Resource and Financial Management-Some Persistent and Perplexing Programming; Pricing and Investment in Transportation Facilities; Program Development; Decision Making; and Evaluation. The key issues which emerged both in the workshops and in the formal presentations are: Programming should be based on goals and objectives and not on fund structures; governmental roles in programming should be clearly delineated; programming should continue to emphasize the trend toward decentralization of decision making to the lowest feasible level of government; fiscal philosophy for transportation programs is moving away from modal trust funding and categorical grants; Diverseness and disparateness are characteristics of the present time; and there should be a continum in the planning, programming and project-selection processes. Workshop findings relating to resource and financial management (sources of funds, financial planning, and revenue allocation), program management (relation of planning and programming, defining the criteria for program development and priority rating, and program identification and project development), decision making (government's role) and evaluation (defining and measuring success, review of program implementation) are presented.

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  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr157/sr157.pdf
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  • Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Proceedings of a conference held March 23-26, 1975 at Orlando, Florida. See individual sections, HRIS #127487 - #127495.
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  Transportation Research Board

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• Conference:
  • Conference on Transportation Programming Process
  • Location: Orlando Florida, United States
  • Date: 1975-3-23 to 1975-3-26
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 75p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 157
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Computer programming; Cost effectiveness; Decentralization; Decision making; Evaluation; Federal government; Finance; Financing; Governments; Inventory; Local government; Planning; Politics; Prices; Resource allocation; State departments of transportation; State government; Strategic planning; Transportation; Transportation operations; Transportation planning; Workshops
• Uncontrolled Terms: Programming
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Government planning; Governmental processes; Transportation administration
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00127486
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 10 1976 12:00AM