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Title: TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Accession Number: 00743229
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: For the past 50 years, surface transportation infrastructure development has been characterized by a stable and well-defined institutional framework. Programs, organizations, and financial arrangements evolved to support the mission of constructing and preserving a basic network of major public facilities--highways, ports, airports, and mass transit. As we move into the 21st century, however, a new focus--the provision of high-quality customer-responsive services--challenges the effectiveness of this inherited framework. This article examines a number of forces, both external and internal, that are driving fundamental changes in the institutional framework for transportation infrastructure services; explores the new institutional architecture; and presents an agenda for surface transportation institutional reform that includes the following nine features: (1) a priority on service provision, (2) performance monitoring to track and provide incentives for improvement, (3) a strong orientation to systems management, (4) a streamlining of the conventions of project delivery to improve agency efficiency, (5) organizational structure and management modeled on private enterprise, (6) new sources of revenue and commercialization of services to augment scarce conventional funds, (7) a reduction in jurisdictional fragmentation, (8) increased roles for the private sector, and (9) the emergence of strong leadership and cross-institutional negotiation. The article concludes by calling for a broad, vigorous, and organized national dialogue focused on the institutional challenges faced at the national, state, regional, and local levels, drawing on collective wisdom and varied experience.
Supplemental Notes: This article is derived from a presentation at the January 1997 semiannual business meeting of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board. Page range: pp 3-9, 35-37.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Lockwood, S CPagination: 10 p.
Publication Date: 1997-9
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Dec 1 1997 12:00AM
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