GOOD PRACTICES FOR THE CONGESTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. FINAL REPORT

One result of voter passage of Proposition 111 in 1990 was the creation of congestion management agencies (CMAs) representing each of California's 32 urban counties. These new agencies were charged with developing and administering a comprehensive congestion management program (CMP) within the county. Although the CMP requirements have been studied elsewhere in the literature, relatively little attention has been paid to CMA organizational issues and effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to fill some of the gaps in knowledge, after four years of experience with the CMP. The approach taken was a review of all of the published CMP documents (plans), and then development of a telephone interview survey. Survey respondents were generally the CMA executive director, or his/her deputy. The questionnaire covered prior and existing CMA functions and structure, self-rating of CMA performance (on a semantic differential scale, from one to ten), a series of statements on CMA effectiveness in various program areas (using a semantic differential scale, with "one" indicating strong disagreement, and "ten" strong agreement), information on staffing and budget, cooperation with other agencies, and an appraisal of what the CMA does best and worst. This study reports on the results of these interviews, and of a comparison of the key technical features of the CMP documents. The results should be of interest to those contemplating or developing congestion management systems in other states, and those responding to the mandates in the ISTEA management systems.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • The preparation of this report has been financed, in part, through a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, under Section 26(a)(2) of the Federal Transit Act Amendments of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
• Corporate Authors:

  San Jose State University

  Institute for Metropolitan Studies
  San Jose, CA  United States  95192-0185

  California Department of Transportation

  Research and Training Program
  Sacramento, CA  United States  94274-0001
• Authors:
  • Rothblatt, D N
  • Colman, S B
  • Bossard, E G
  • Basu, N
  • Ferrell, C
  • Mahood, L
  • Shiffler, G
  • Kang, Y
• Publication Date: 1994-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 169 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Congestion management systems; Data collection; Documents; Interviewing; Measures of effectiveness; Performance; Surveys; Traffic congestion; Traffic mitigation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness; Mitigation
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Executive directors
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00675194
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Mar 3 1995 12:00AM