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Component

Preparing transportation plans involves a significant investment of time and money for metropolitan planning organizations, state departments of transportation, and other transportation planning agencies. Many of these transportation plans are a required product of the statewide and metropolitan transportation planning process. What happens to all these plans? If transportation plans are decision-making documents, then learning from previous plans is a fundamental element for making better decisions in the future. This project created a repository and archive for transportation planning documents in Texas within the established Texas A&M Repository (http://digital.library.tamu.edu). This transportation planning archive and repository provides transportation planners, researchers, policy makers, and anyone with internet access the ability to access a historic archive of transportation plans and decision-making documents. A homepage was established for the repository along with a process for collecting transportation plans, creating repository records, and uploading the documents. A consistent set of metadata for elements of the repository records such as agency names, dates, and plan topics were also prepared. The archive currently contains the long-range transportation plans from metropolitan planning organizations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico; all are posted in the Texas A&M Repository at http://repository.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/90584.

01362476

12-2708

English

9p

2012

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Documents; Information storage and retrieval systems; Metadata; Transportation planning; Websites (Information retrieval)

Texas A&M University

Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-2708

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2012 5:11PM