The Regional Concept for Transportation Operations: A Practitioner's Guide

This practitioner’s guide is a collection of the observed successes and lessons learned from four metropolitan regions as they developed Regional Concepts for Transportation Operations (RCTOs), a management tool used by planners and operations practitioners to define a strategic direction for implementing effective regional transportation management and operations in a collaborative manner. This document provides information on how to develop and implement an RCTO effectively and efficiently by highlighting practices that have been used successfully to overcome challenges by the four implementing regions that forged ahead into this new territory. This guide offers lessons from these pioneering sites that can help other implementing regions to select the methods that are most effective in improving regional transportation system performance. The RCTO demonstrations sites include Portland, Oregon; Tucson, Arizona; Southeast Michigan; and Hampton Roads, Virginia.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop11032/fhwahop11032.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Science Applications International Corporation

  8301 Greensboro Drive
  McLean, VA  United States  22102

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Bauer, Jocelyn K
  • Smith, Michael C
  • Pecheux, Kelley K
• Publication Date: 2011-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 60p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Guidelines; Lessons learned; Metropolitan areas; Regional planning; Strategic planning; Transportation operations; Transportation system management
• Geographic Terms: Hampton Roads (Virginia); Portland (Oregon); Southeast Michigan; Tucson (Arizona)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01358665
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HOP-11-032
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-06-D-00005
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 9 2011 3:53PM