Transportation agencies need to identify and evaluate current and emerging performance measures, analytic tools, and data sources in order to improve their ability to integrate issues such as climate change, goods movement, changing centers of population and economic activity, and telework into their decisions about system performance.

NCHRP Research Report 1042: State Transportation Agency Decision-Making for System Performance: Practitioner’s Playbook, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, presents an analytic framework for transportation agencies to employ to improve their ability to integrate critical issues into their decisions about making transportation safe, efficient, sustainable, and equitable for people and goods.

Supplemental to the report are NCHRP Web-Only Document 345: State Transportation Agency Decision-Making for System Performance: Conduct of Research Report; a Visualization Tool that depicts the relationships among trends, issues, and system objectives; a guide to using the tool; and a technical memorandum.

Accessing the Visualization Tool: After clicking on the link above, download the tool and extract the files. Open “homepage.html” to begin using the tool.

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