Strategic Approaches at the Corridor and Network Level to Minimize Disruption from the Renewal Process

Abstract

Program managers within state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning\norganizations (MPOs) are charged with distilling a chaotic universe of identified renewal needs into\na logically sequenced program of manageable projects over a period of years. In addition, program\nmanagers are tasked with sequencing programs of projects in ways that maximize available resources,\nminimize disruptions to the traveling public and to adjacent land uses, and recognize political priorities.\nOver the past several years, substantial progress has been made in the areas of performance\nmeasurement, maintenance of traffic, mitigation of congestion in work zones, and alternative contracting\nand construction techniques. All of this progress has been made in studies and planning\ndesigned to minimize, manage, and mitigate disruption to traffic and commerce arising from\nrenewal programs. However, in reality, performance measures are applied largely at the project level,\nand impacts are not analyzed at the program (mesoscopic) level. The products of this SHRP 2\nRenewal project include both a software tool that will assist program managers at DOTs and MPOs\nin sequencing programs of projects and the training materials on applying that tool.\nTask 1 of this project identified the universe of published works that may be applicable to the\nproducts of this project. During the Task 2 literature analysis, 135 documents from Task 1 were\nidentified as being “highly relevant” to this project and were reviewed to extract critical information.\nIn Tasks 3, 4, and 5, a similar data set was extracted through interviews with DOTs, MPOs,\nand other key stakeholders. This allowed the research team (the team) to draw comparisons and\nidentify differences between theory and practice. The team observed that the gap between the\nstate of the art (identified in Tasks 1 and 2) and the state of the practice (identified in Tasks 3\nand 4) is quite pronounced and varies widely across the country (Figure ES.1).\nAvailable software platforms with capabilities similar to those considered in this project were\nidentified and analyzed. The lessons learned from the team’s review of the various software platforms\nand packages provided an excellent basis and critical information for the proposed Work\nZone Impact and Strategy Estimator (WISE) tool.\n

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