Improving travel-time reliability through innovative operations and management.
Organizing for Reliability Tools (L01/L06)
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Challenge
Transportation agencies know that improving traffic systems operations and management, particularly when addressing nonrecurring events such as inclement weather or crashes, can improve safety, increase efficiency, and reduce the cost of congestion for drivers, freight operators, and other users. Agencies need standardized tools and operating procedures, however, to evaluate these programs for continual improvements to the travel-time reliability of roads.
Solution
SHRP2 provides an opportunity to improve travel-time reliability and traffic operations in a systematic way on a national scale. SHRP2 has developed a series of tools that help agencies assess their traffic operations programs and address ways to improve operations and ensure that their system has the capacity to handle both recurring traffic and nonrecurring events. Agencies can use these products to better assess and organize their structures to address systems operations and management, improving safety, mobility, and customer relations.
This SHRP2 Solution provides a set of tools directed at assisting transportation agencies in evaluating and improving their capabilities to conduct effective and efficient operations in their State/region.
Benefits
With this series of reliability solutions, agencies can evaluate their current organizational ability to improve operations, and then determine what steps to take in order to reach the next level of organizational effectiveness, and further improve over time. This product gives transportation agencies a structured means to review organizational and business process issues related to traffic operations. Improved operations can lead to fewer secondary crashes from nonrecurring events, less congestion and associated fuel consumption, and improved travel-time reliability.