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Title:

Overcoming Performance Based Practical Design Implementation Issues

Accession Number:

01590979

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Performance Based Practical Design aims to deliver maximized system performance by addressing more miles of roadway than traditional design approaches. A number of states have implemented some type of this approach and past research has focused on applications and documentation of benefits. However, few have examined the effectiveness of the policies and guidance needed to achieve an effective practical design program. This paper identifies several implementation challenges that must be overcome by a department of transportation (DOT) for long term success of these programs, including effective programming to capture cost savings at the local level, creating incentives for project engineers, district administrators or area legislators to evaluate and optimize projects, providing adequate staffing to meet the increased project demands due to the need for more detail evaluations of a greater number of possible alternatives and options, and development of consultant contracts that incentivize innovative designs aimed at reducing construction costs, without decreasing the design awards. These challenges and issues are explored here and approaches are identified to address them in order to improve the project development process through the use of Performance Based Practical Design.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADA50 Standing Committee on Transportation Programming and Investment Decision-Making. Alternate title: Overcoming Practical Design Implementation Issues

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-4016

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Stamatiadis, Nikiforos
Kirk, Adam

Pagination:

12p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Uncontrolled Terms:

Challenges; Performance based design

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-4016

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 5:46PM