Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Theperformance measures framework is intended to be flexible, expandable, and modular. It can serve practitioners interested in improving or creating a comprehensive performance measures framework, but it also supports the needs of practitioners looking to capture the impacts on a specific factor, or focusing on a specific phase in the capacity project delivery process.
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In the "capacity decision-making factors" dimension, performance measures are arranged according to their relevance to critical categories of factors that influence decision making, including transportation, environmental, community, and economic factors. Linking Measures to Decisions – When The performance measures identified within each of the factors are intended to support key decisions throughout the phases of the project development process, including longrange planning, programming, corridor studies, environmental review, permitting, and design.
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sets the broad federal guidelines, it is supplemented by a variety of environmental laws, such as the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Historic Preservation Act; Executive Orders, such as Environmental Justice; and U.S. DOT implementing guidelines, such as Section 4(f )
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What purpose does it serve? How should it be considered differently at the many stages of the transportation planning process?
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Example-Specific Objectives Used to Organize Performance Measures Reduce Recurring Congestion – Improve Travel Time Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation sources Integration of land use and transportation planning efforts Arizona DOT – Long-Range Transportation Plan Florida DOT – Florida Transportation Plan Oregon DOT – Oregon Transportation Plan Maintain and enhance the ability of goods and people to move through and around urban areas with minimal delay. Make transportation decisions that conserve and optimize nonrenewable resources and promote the use of renewable resources (materials, facilities, and sources of energy)
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