CASE STUDY REPORT: HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION (TMO). FINAL REPORT

This report summarizes the results of one metropolitan area's efforts to initiate and develop a Transportation Management Organization (TMO). Also known as a Transportation Management Association or TMA, this is an organizational concept which appears to be helpful in dealing with complex urban transportation problems. The TMO is a public-private partnership, designed to meld the awareness and resources of both sectors into comprehensive programs to combat growth/transportation problems which show up as traffic congestion and/or development controls. TMO's have become an increasingly popular concept for attacking this problem, both in central cities and the suburbs. Yet, simply forming a TMA is not, in itself, an answer. A TMO appears to be an ideal basis, in terms of the representation of the membership, to attack transportation problems at their source. However, it is the program of actions that the TMO adopts, and the clout it has to implement these actions that ultimately determines whether it is effective. Forming a TMO is merely a starting point. This report, therefore, attempts to accomplish two purposes: First, it serves to document and summarize the results of the TMO initiated in Hartford, Connecticut, under the guidance of the Greater Hartford Ridesharing Corporation, from startup in 1982 through December 1987. The second and broader purpose is to develop a general description, or model, of what a TMO is and what it must do to be successful, and then compares Hartford against this theoretical model.

• Corporate Authors:

  Comsis Corporation

  11501 Georgia Avenue
  Wheaton, MD  United States  20902

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Kuzmyak, J R
  • Schreffler, E N
• Publication Date: 1988-2

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 105 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Mathematical models; Public private partnerships; Transportation management associations
• Identifier Terms: Urban Mass Transportation Act
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Transportation management organization, tmo; Umta section 6
• Subject Areas: Law; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00468372
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-MD-06-0121-88-1
• Contract Numbers: DTUM60-86-C-71298
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 30 1988 12:00AM