Support for AASHTO Committees and Councils. Development of a New Transportation System Operations Strategic Plan

The current American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Committee on Transportation System Operations (CTSO) strategic plan (relevant documentations can be found online at: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/nchrp/docs/CTSODocuments.zip) has many goals, each with a series of strategic initiatives and proposed implementation actions that were intended to be updated annually. In the spring and summer of 2020, CTSO’s leadership identified a series of cross-cutting themes:Cooperative Automated Transportation Coalition (CAT)/ Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) alignment; Research to build on existing practices; National Operations Center of Excellence's (NOCoE) role to encourage outreach and knowledge transfer; Capture of best practices to benchmark TSMO; The value of Regional Operations Leadership Forum (ROLF) and the Transportation Operations Manual (TOM) as foundational to the TSMO workforce and effective practices; Alignment of TSMO and safety; and The importance freight operations within TSMO. The CTSO’s leadership further challenged its working groups to develop 2020/2021 action plans rather than update its implementation actions within each goal. This thematic approach has made it easier for CTSO working groups to review their portfolio, identify tasks, monitor their progress, and ensure effective collaboration among working groups and other AASHTO committees. AASHTO also released an updated 2021-2026 Strategic Plan (https://aashtosp.wpengine.com/). This has led to a larger conversation about how best CTSO might engage strategically in the future, and what the implications are for its current planning structure and process. AASHTO’s CTSO leadership believe it is important to develop a new strategic plan that reflects the continuing, fast-paced development of the TSMO field and the Committee’s learnings on how best to support these developments. This new approach is not easily supported by the current strategic plan’s structure, hence the need to overhaul rather than simply revise it. OBJECTIVES: This project objectives are to: (1) develop a new, comprehensive 5-year strategic plan for CTSO and (2) develop a multi-year action plan to implement the 5-year strategic plan for CTSO. The strategic plan will build upon the existing plan and should be publication-ready with a purpose statement and a charter. At the minimum, the research shall include the following: A review and strategic alignment of CTSO structure and its sub-committees and community of practices to refresh the CTSO structure; Engagement activities for the CTSO’ sub-committee stakeholders, practitioner community and other AASHTO committees and councils to solicit their feedback and input; and A multi-year action plan to implement the proposed strategic plan.

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5265

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-123(18)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Deng, Zuxuan

• Performing Organizations:

  Gannett Fleming, Incorporated

  209 Senate Avenue
  Camp Hill, Pennsylvania  United States  17011
• Principal Investigators:

  Son, Patrick

• Start Date: 20230406
• Expected Completion Date: 20240405
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Committees; Highway operations; Improvements; Knowledge; Management; State of the practice; Strategic planning; Technology transfer
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01789440
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-123(18)
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Nov 25 2021 12:55PM