REGIONAL COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE SAFETY, RELIABILITY, AND SECURITY

This article explores strategies to improve communication, collaboration, and cooperation between agencies who are responsible for managing problems that arise in regional transportation settings, including traffic accidents. The authors outline the national efforts that have focused on linking planning and operations, then consider the regional challenges that planners face. The authors note that collaboration is particularly critical in metropolitan regions and congested corridors where numerous jurisdictions, agencies, and service providers are involved. The authors then describe approaches to improving regional coordination, including planning for operations, the five-part framework for coordination in system operations (structure, process, products, resources, performance), and the linkage between operations and planning. The article concludes with a brief description of the Federal Highway Administration (FWHA) Joint Pathway program, undertaken to enhance regional planning and operations, and to enhance the decisionmaking processes so that investments in operations are on par with investments in construction and preservation. One sidebar outlines how planning for operations works in real-life in the state of Washington.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/04nov/02.cfm
• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

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• Authors:
  • Berman, W
  • Mayhew, R
• Publication Date: 2004-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 9-13
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 68
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Cooperation; Coordination; Emergency management; Interorganizational relations; Planning methods; Regional planning; Technological innovations; Transportation operations
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Highway Administration; Washington State Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00986502
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 14 2005 12:00AM