NHI COURSE NO. 15127, STATEWIDE HIGHWAY PLANNING PROCEDURES. PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK

Statewide highway planning procedures and the current state-of-the-practice are documented in this report. The purpose is to provide an instruction manual for the participants in the National Highway Institute (NHI) Course No. 15127, and also, a reference manual that can be used to determine common practices in the eight important areas of statewide planning. These areas are as follows: (1) The Statewide Highway Planning Process; (2) Data Needs and Collection Procedures: Traffic, Classification, Weights, Roadway Inventory, Pavement Distress, HPMS Roughness, and Information Systems; (3) Travel Forecasting Procedures: Autos, Trucks, and ESALs Using Trend, Regression, and Network Approaches; (4) Systems Analysis Procedures: Highway Plans, Population/Land Use Forecasts, Functional Classification, Arterial Preservation, Level of Development Plans, and Cost Allocation; (5) Highway Needs: HPMS Analytical Process, HWYNEEDS, HIAP, Network PMS, Sufficiency Ratings, and Route Analyses; (6) Project Level Analyses: Project Development, Benefit/Cost, Environmental, and South Carolina Prioritization; (7) Pavement Design Related to Truck Travel Forecasts: Truck Impacts, ESAL Forecasting, and Pavement Management; and (8) Management and Legislature Presentations.

• Corporate Authors:

  Smith (Wilbur) and Associates

  P.O. Box 92
  Columbia, SC  United States  29202

  National Highway Institute

  Federal Highway Administration
  1310 North Courthouse Road, Suite 300
  Arlington, VA  United States  22201
• Authors:
  • Covil, J
  • Sexton, M
  • Stephens, L
• Publication Date: 1990-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 665 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Highway planning; Highways; Information, data, and knowledge; Manuals; Needs assessment; Pavement design; Pavement management systems; Politics; Project management; Regional planning; State of the art studies; States; Systems analysis; Traffic forecasting
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data needs
• Old TRIS Terms: Project analysis; State planning
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Design; Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00497370
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HI-90-031
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-87-C-00148
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 30 1991 12:00AM