Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco Bay Area : developing regional objectives and performance measures to improve system operations.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

United States. Federal Highway Administration

United States. Federal Transit Administration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California. Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

California.

Transportation--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Planning.

Transportation.

Regional planning--California--San Francisco Bay Area.

Regional planning.

Transportation--Planning.

California--San Francisco Bay Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 pages) : color map, color charts

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, [2009]

Summary:

"The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) uses an objectives-driven, performance-based approach in its transportation planning for the San Francisco Bay Area. This approach focuses attention on transportation investments of highest priority. The agency assesses not only project-level performance, but also wide-ranging regional performance in relation to ambitious targets set by the agency. Project-level analysis using metrics defined for regional objectives results in a quantitative assessment of a project's costs and benefits. To date, management and operations strategies, such as the agency's Freeway Performance Initiative, have proven the most cost-effective. This type of freeway and arterial coordination can yield major benefits, though numerous challenges remain including data inconsistencies and reaching consensus on appropriate analysis tools. The agency recognizes that a range of strategies is needed to improve traffic in one of the Nation's most congested areas."

Notes:

Title from PDF title screen (viewed on July 5, 2011).

"April 2009."

Includes bibliographical references (page 6).

"FHWA-HOP-09-047."

OCLC:

501062252