PLANNING FOR TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS

The workshop on planning for transportation management and operations took note of the changing environment in the transportation field that has greatly altered the needs of decisionmakers. With the shifting of the majority of public transportation services in the 1960s into the public sector and with the reduction of the large construction programs in the highway field, individuals responsible for transportation activities at the state and local levels of government find themselves facing a different set of issues. Prior management requirements were oriented toward facility planning, but future requirements will be directed toward the efficient, effective, and economical management of existing systems, both physical and operational. Most likely there will be a continual merging of public transportation operations and traffic engineering activities over the next decade, even though the amount of funds allocated for each of these areas may be substantially reduced. As the emphasis is changed in the transportation field, new or different skills will be required for managing resources. Since the emphasis will change from design construction, and acquisition of transit operating properties, the skills needed for day-to-day management will be quite different. Thus, transportation personnel, both academic and field practitioners, must reorient their thinking and their training programs in order to perform successfully in this new environment. Individuals coming into the transportation field must be provided with an appropriate mix of new skills to operate in this new environment. In addition, there is a need for the reorientation and retraining of individuals already in the field to meet the challenges of the different environment.

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• Authors:
  • Heathington, Kenneth W
• Conference:
  • Conference on Urban Transportation Planning in the 1980s
  • Location: Warrenton Virginia, United States
  • Date: 1981-11-9 to 1981-11-2
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 18-24
• Monograph Title: URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IN THE 1980S
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 196
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Training; Transportation operations; Transportation planning; Transportation system management; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00372071
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: May 31 1983 12:00AM