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Collaborative Decision Making
Welcome to the hub of SHRP 2 products for collaboration in transportation decision making. The SHRP 2 Capacity program is developing tools and resources for systematically integrating environmental, economic, and community requirements into the analysis, planning, and design of new highway capacity. The products related to collaboration are collected on this page.
Categories
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Tools (Web tools such as TCAPP and guides)
Reports (case studies, research reports)
Webinars
Project Briefs
Background Material
Links to Other Capacity Product Pages
Transportation for Communities—Advancing Projects through Partnerships (TCAPP)
TCAPP is the online delivery source for most Capacity research in SHRP 2. It provides a systematic approach for reaching collaborative decisions, and it identifies key decision points in four phases of transportation decision making: long-range transportation planning, corridor planning, programming, and environmental review and permitting.
Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making
A web-based library of performance measures that emphasizes environmental and community measures was developed through SHRP 2 Capacity project C02. This web resource is designed to help you select performance measures to support the evaluation of major highway capacity projects. The resource allows you to both browse individual planning factors (key issues you may want to address with performance measures) and to generate a report with a set of measures that are relevant to your project.
Transportation—Visioning for Communities (T-VIZ)
A website from Capacity project C08 provides a model vision process to help you successfully engage in visioning during transportation planning. This includes assessing the possibilities of visioning, identifying practical steps when engaging in visioning, and establishing links between vision outcomes and transportation planning and project development processes.
Strategies and methods for improved coordination of freight movements in transportation planning
TBA
Decision Maker’s Guide to the Collaborative Decision Making Framework
TBA
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Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning (SHRP 2 Reports S2-C08-RR-1 and S2-C08-RW-2)
Posted April 23, 2012
The purpose of SHRP 2 project C08, Community Visioning Approach to
Support the SHRP 2 Collaborative Decision-Making Framework for Additions
to Highway Capacity, was to help transportation agency practitioners
assess the possibilities of community visioning efforts, identify
practical steps and activities when engaging in visioning, and establish
links between vision outcomes and transportation planning and project
development processes. To these ends, this research presents a model—the
Vision Guide—for the preparation, creation, and implementation of a
visioning process. A companion web tool was also developed. SHRP 2
Report S2-C08-RR-1: Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning is available as a PDF and through the TRB bookstore.
The appendices, which include case studies and a collection of
resources, were published as a separate document, S2-C08-RW-2, and are
available only as a PDF.
The Vision Guide is connected to the transportation planning and
project development processes identified in related SHRP 2 Capacity
research and presented in the Decision Guide structure on the website
Transportation for Communities—Advancing Projects through Partnership
(TCAPP), found at transportationforcommunities.com.
Case Studies in Collaboration
One way to understand how collaboration can be incorporated into transportation decision making is through the use of case study examples. These cases represent successful use of collaboration in a wide variety of transportation applications. The studies provide real-world best practices, pitfalls, and lessons learned. These case studies were developed in 2007 through Capacity Project C01: A Framework for Collaborative Decision Making on Additions to Highway Capacity.
Research Report S2-C02-RR: Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making
SHRP 2 Report S2-C02-RR: Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making explores a performance measurement framework that is designed to support the collaborative decision-making framework (CDMF) for additions to highway capacity being developed under the SHRP 2 Capacity research program. The report examines five broad areas of performance including transportation, environment, economics, community, and cost. Under these headings, the report identifies 17 performance factors, each of which are linked to key decision points in the CDMF.The report is available online as an Adobe PDF document and in hardcopy through the TRB bookstore.
Other Reports
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Recorded TRB Webinar: A Community Visioning Approach to Support the Collaborative
Decision-Making Framework for Transportation Investments
Posted April 19, 2011
Transportation practitioners strive to develop and maintain community
support to deliver a successful project. As a project moves through the
processes of planning, design and construction and becomes operational,
the early commitment to a consensus can erode. Visioning is a tool that
can help maintain consensus as the project progresses. On May 25, 2011,
TRB conducted a web briefing or "webinar" that explored ways to more
effectively incorporate the public involvement
process of community visioning into collaborative planning of new
highway capacity projects. SHRP 2 is developing a supporting framework
for visioning, known as
Transportation—Visioning for Communities (T-VIZ),
which enables broad, strategic outcomes of visioning to transfer to
specific, focused planning and project processes. Panelists presented
information about a model vision process, or Vision Guide, which is a
blueprint for the preparation, creation, and implementation of a
visioning process. This structured, simplified process can better
enable practitioners to engage in visioning during transportation
planning. For more details, view a summary of the webinar. Email Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu to receive a link to the recording of this session. There is no fee for employees of TRB sponsors to receive this recording. Others must pay $89.00 to receive a link to view this recorded session.
Recorded SHRP 2 Webinar: Transportation for Communities—Advancing Projects through Partnerships (TCAPP)
A demonstration of the TCAPP website was included in a Webinar on February 11, 2010. A recording of the Webinar is available in Windows Media Player format, and the slides are available as a PDF. The webinar also served as a pre-bid conference on opportunities to pilot test TCAPP and helped potential proposers decide if they wanted to propose to conduct pilot tests that were announced in March 2010. Responses to questions that were unanswered during the C18 pre-bid webinar can be found on this web page.
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Project Brief C01: Reaching Decisions that Deliver Capacity
This project brief summarizes Capacity Project C01: A Framework for Collaborative Decision Making on Additions to Highway Capacity. The brief describes how the collaborative decision-making framework—being developed in project C01—can help practitioners systematically apply the most successful strategies for integrating environmental, economic, and community needs into the analysis, planning, and design of new highway capacity. It also announces an upcoming workshop and pilot testing opportunities.
Project Brief C02: Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making
SHRP 2 has released a project brief that summarizes SHRP 2 Capacity project C02, which developed a performance measurement framework designed to improve the consistency of decision making by organizing a set of performance measures that are linked to each stage of the planning and development process.
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Conceptual Approach to Capacity Research
The conceptual framework for transportation decision making is based on the need to develop approaches and tools for systematically integrating environmental, economic, and community requirements into the analysis, planning, and design of new highway capacity. The framework is characterized by three primary components.
The Collaborative Decision-Making Framework
The transportation decision making process is made of many individual steps. Most of these steps are work activities that take place in the technical decision making process. Capacity project C01 developed the Collaborative Decision-Making Framework (CDMF) to identify key decision points (KDPs) in four phases of transportation decision-making processes.
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Links to Other Capacity Product Pages
The SHRP 2 Capacity program is also developing other products. Click on a product topic to learn about those products and their current status:
• Economic Impact Analysis • Integration of Conservation Planning, Highway Planning, and Environmental Review • Advanced Modeling and Networks • Operations to Improve Capacity and Reliability • Greenhouse Gases • Public/Private Partnerships • Smart Growth
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