Right-Sizing Transportation Investments: A Guidebook for Planning and Programming
Transportation agencies across the United States are afflicted with aging infrastructure, unstable funding, changing performance expectations, and programs that need
updating to meet future demand effectively and efficiently. Yet, these agencies are charged with ensuring ongoing alignment
between the life cycle cost, capacity, extent, condition, and function of a piece of infrastructure or a program and its intended current and future use.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's
NCHRP Research Report 917: Right-Sizing Transportation Investments: A Guidebook for Planning and Programming provides a guideline for identifying right-sizing opportunities where greater social and economic value can be realized by repurposing, reusing,
or fundamentally resizing existing transportation system assets.
There is an
executive summary associated with this report, as well as several supplementary materials, including:
This Summary Last Modified On: 9/2/2020