Guidance for Transportation Project Management

Transportation agencies, particularly state departments of transportation (DOTs), generally must operate with limited staff resources, inadequate funds for needed projects, and high political and public expectations to deliver projects more quickly and efficiently. Increasingly, DOTs are expected to build projects of broader scope, more complexity, and larger scale, with substantial financial, political, environmental, economic, and social ramifications. DOT staff efforts to meet these challenges often entail finding ways to improve project delivery and optimize resource use in the project-delivery process. Many states are enhancing their project management performance by implementing new work strategies and adopting new tools in such areas as organizational change management, project management control and reporting, program administration and contracting, professional staff development and training, and stakeholder and public involvement. These strategies and tools may be developed initially by other DOTs or organizations in other businesses, and then are adapted to the specific conditions of the agency where they are to be used. Access to knowledge of up-to-date, effective project development practices is then a resource that DOT managers can use to help them meet the challenges they face. The objective of this project is to develop a project-management guidance document that includes a toolbox of effective practices for application on transportation projects. The guidance document also should identify the benefits that can be expected from strengthened project management both in terms of the success of transportation projects and in increased effectiveness of organizational strategies, staff development, and process resources.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/TRBNet/ProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=655

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $249943.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-69

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

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

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Lemer, Andrew

• Performing Organizations:

  Jacobs Engineering Group

  Corvallis, OR  United States  97330
• Principal Investigators:

  Marshall, Kenneth

• Start Date: 20060207
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20090313
• Source Data: RiP Project 11205

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Guidelines; Knowledge; Organizational effectiveness; Project management; Research projects; Resource development; Strategic planning; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01463011
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-69
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:14PM