Performance measurement of transportation systems : summary of the Fourth International Conference, May 18-20, 2011, Irvine, California / Katherine Turnbull, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, rapporteur ; sponsored by Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Transportation Research Board.

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Published: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2013.
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Series:Conference proceedings (National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board : Online) ; 49.
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Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Table of Contents:
  • Winning performance management strategies for the change game
  • Preparing your performance management program for reauthorization
  • Adjusting your performance management program for changes in vehicle and fuel technology
  • Implications of climate change and sustainability for performance management programs
  • Performance-based decision making: the bucks start here!
  • Clash of priorities
  • Levels of decision making
  • Lessons learned
  • The future is now!
  • Digital breadcrumbs: Mobility data capture with social media
  • Transforming experiences: from data to measures, measures to information, and information to decisions with data fusion and visualization
  • Asking the right questions: timely advice for emerging tools, better data, and approaches for systems performance measures
  • Tools and methods: what are we doing and how are we doing it?
  • Measuring regional and community outcomes
  • Measuring transportation system and mode performance
  • Measuring service quality, effectiveness, and efficiency at the program, project, or service levels
  • Measuring the immeasurable: pitfalls and opportunities for gauging livability, economic prosperity, and transit state of good repair
  • Breaking down boundaries for transportation, land use, and the environment: how to choose and use livability metrics
  • Incorporating economic impact yardsticks into transportation investment decision making and performance management
  • State-of-good-repair data, performance measures, and capital program decision making
  • Concluding remarks
  • Appendix A: poster summaries.