Multimodal Transportation: Development of a Performance-Based Planning Process

In recent years, national transportation policy has evolved to support the development of multimodal systems and services tailored to local conditions for improved efficiency and performance. This digest describes how performance-based transportation planning and decision making can be established to effectively guide transportation investment and operational decisions. It is intended to assist transportation planners, policy officials, and other practitioners in improving the transportation planning processes at the state, metropolitan, and local levels. It also presents an action plan for Phase II of the research, which will produce a guidance manual for state departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and other transportation planning organizations.