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A hypothetical organization is proposed where the operating agency is also closest to the financing source and thus should be responsible for resource allocation and its associated trade-offs. This agency understands, better than any other, the needs of its system and the demands of its user constituency. The manner in which each operating agency makes its decisions on services in its system would be reviewed by the supervising agencies, but the supervisors' involvement would be limited to advising operators on appropriate considerations and approaches in such decisions. The supervising agencies would be lead agencies for decisions requiring coordination among the individual systems that they supervise. Such decisions should include active participation by each operating agency whose system will be directly affected by the decision. Except in extreme cases, however, the agreement of all participants in such coordination decisions should be obtained before implementation. Higher-level supervising agencies should be responsible for the review of lower-level supervising agency performance, except in the case where they are either coordinators or operators. This means that the federal and state agencies should not be deeply involved in the management process. (Author)

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1980

Transportation Research Board Special Report

Workshop on Transportation System Management

Digital/other

Alternatives analysis; Conferences; Coordination; Decision making; Federal government; Institutional issues; Local government agencies; Resource allocation; State government; Transportation system management

Local agencies; Responsibilities

United States

Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 1980 12:00AM

• CONFERENCE SUMMARY AND FINDINGS
• FOUR YEARS LATER THE STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF TSM
• INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT: A BOTTOMS-UP APPROACH
• INTEGRATING TSM INTO THE OVERALL TRANSPORTATION/PLANNING PROCESS
• INTRODUCTION TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT IN 1980. STATE OF THE ART AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
• ISSUES IN TSM METHODOLOGY
• MONITORING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE: A FOUNDATION FOR TSM PLANNING
• NEGLECTED HIGH-ACHIEVEMENT TSM ACTIONS
• RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MAJOR NATIONAL GOALS AND TSM
• Results of the Workshop - An Areawide Planning Context for TSM
• Results of the Workshop - Neglected High-Achievement TSM Actions
• Results of the Workshop - Roles of Organizations, Public and Private Enterprise, and the Professional Disciplines in TSM Planning, Programming, and Implementation
• ROLE OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IN TSM: CAN INTEREST BE GENERATED AND MAINTAINED?
• TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT: OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS