TSM: ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL ROLES

A hypothetical organization is proposed where the operating agency is also closest to the financing source and thus should be responsible for resource allocation and its associated trade-offs. This agency understands, better than any other, the needs of its system and the demands of its user constituency. The manner in which each operating agency makes its decisions on services in its system would be reviewed by the supervising agencies, but the supervisors' involvement would be limited to advising operators on appropriate considerations and approaches in such decisions. The supervising agencies would be lead agencies for decisions requiring coordination among the individual systems that they supervise. Such decisions should include active participation by each operating agency whose system will be directly affected by the decision. Except in extreme cases, however, the agreement of all participants in such coordination decisions should be obtained before implementation. Higher-level supervising agencies should be responsible for the review of lower-level supervising agency performance, except in the case where they are either coordinators or operators. This means that the federal and state agencies should not be deeply involved in the management process. (Author)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board (TRB)

  Washington, DC   
• Authors:
  • Shunk, Gordon A
• Conference:
  • Workshop on Transportation System Management
  • Location: Arlington Texas, United States
  • Date: 1979-11-26 to 1979-11-29
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: pp 22-24
• Monograph Title: Transportation system management in 1980: state of the art and future directions
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 190
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Conferences; Coordination; Decision making; Federal government; Institutional issues; Local government agencies; Resource allocation; State government; Transportation system management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Local agencies; Responsibilities
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00319367
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 30 1980 12:00AM