The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) required states to develop and implement six systems for managing highway pavement, bridges, highway safety, traffic congestion, public transportation facilities and equipment, and intermodal transportation facilities and systems. These management systems are tools that provide information to assist state and local decisionmakers in selecting cost-effective policies, programs, and projects to protect and improve the nation's transportation infrastructure. Management systems take a variety of forms, including computerized inventories of assets, software programs, systematic procedures or processes for collecting and analyzing information, and committees that develop recommendations to improve the systems' performance. In 1995, the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995-often called the NHS Act-made the systems optional, except the congestion management system in certain areas, and prohibited the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) from withholding funds from states that elected not to implement any system. In addition, the NHS Act required GAO to examine issues concerning the states' implementation of the management systems. In discussions with your offices, we agreed to identify (1) the status of the states' development and implementation of the systems, (2) how the states expect to use the systems, and (3) the factors that have facilitated or hindered the development and implementation of the systems. We obtained general information from state and federal reports on the status of development and implementation of the systems in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. We obtained more detailed information from state and local transportation officials in the seven states we selected for case studies of their experiences in developing, implementing, and using the systems. Additional information on our methodology is discussed at the end of this letter.
Transportation Infrastructure: States' Implementation of Transportation Management Systems
1997
70 pages
Report
No indication
English
Road Transportation , Highway Engineering , Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation management systems , Land transportation , Transportation infrastructure , Decision making , Pavements , Ground traffic , Civil engineering , Highways , Public safety , State government , Mass transportation , Local government , Causeways , Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficienty Act of 1991
Transportation Infrastructure Management
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
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British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
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