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101 In most metropolitan areas, roadway congestion, delay, and unreliability continue to increase. At the same time, the potential of traditional strategies to increase capacity is constrained by both financial and physical impact considerations.
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102 INCORPORATING RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING PROCESSES: TECHNICAL REFERENCE 7.1 CHARACTERISTICS OF TSM&O TSM&O strategies are heavily dependent on a combination of technologies embodied in defined regional systems architectures. These strategies require relating key functions and players regarding the flow of information (detection, surveillance, communication, information management and analysis, etc.)
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103 INCORPORATING RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING PROCESSES: TECHNICAL REFERENCE Planning and programming is one of the key dimensions of capability. Formal planning for TSM&O exists only in a tiny minority of state DOTs and MPOs.
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104 INCORPORATING RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING PROCESSES: TECHNICAL REFERENCE and upgrades. This activity tends to be driven by mid-level, self-taught staff champions with strong commitment and the entrepreneurial skills to overcome lack of a formal planning and programming process.
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105 INCORPORATING RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING PROCESSES: TECHNICAL REFERENCE 7.6 KEY DIMENSIONS OF CAPABILITY An examination of best practice, as suggested in Chapter 5, indicated the critical dimen sions of planning and programming for TSM&O -- as a program -- that must be incorporated into the capability improvement framework. Both business processes and institutional and organizational change have been shown to be essential and synergistic.
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106 INCORPORATING RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING PROCESSES: TECHNICAL REFERENCE 7.8 BASIC CAPABILITY IMPROVEMENT FRAMEWORK GUIDANCE TEMPLATE FOR TSM&O PLANNING With the concept of dimensions and levels of capability as a framework, criteria were identified associated with each dimension and level combination and into the cells of a dimension/ level matrix. The result is a guidance template for improving TSM&O planning and programming, as illustrated in Table 7.1.
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107 INCORPORATING RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING PROCESSES: TECHNICAL REFERENCE TABLE 7.1. CAPABILITY IMPROVEMENT FRAMEWORK GUIDANCE TEMPLATE FOR TSM&O PLANNING Dimensions of Capability Levels of Capability Level 1: Ad Hoc Level 2: Developing Level 3: Specified Level 4: Mainstreamed IN S TI TU TI O N A L Organizational Structure and Staffing for TSM&O Planners with limited TSM&O background Needed staff capabilities for planning identified and specified Key relationships and needed capacities established Formalized TSM&O organizational structure and position descriptions accommodated Planning Cooperation/ Collaboration for TSM&O No formal planning or programming for TSM&O TSM&O consideration at individual unit/ agency level Coordination/ sharing of multiagency TSM&O planning via existing technical committees TSM&O integrated into regional interagency multimodal planning (single process)
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108 INCORPORATING RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING PROCESSES: TECHNICAL REFERENCE 7.10 DIMENSION-SPECIFIC STRATEGIES FOR CAPABILITY IMPROVEMENT Advancing from one level to the next within a given dimension of the capability improvement framework requires following defined strategies. The full matrix of seven dimensions and three possible level advancements (Level 1 to 2, Level 2 to 3, and Level 3 to 4)
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