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https://doi.org/10.3141/1858-18

http://scholar.google.com...dman&publication_year=2003

Innovative structuring of the decision-making process has allowed a large metropolitan planning organization, the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA), to face the challenge of cooperatively developing a long-range transportation investment agenda in a complex and diverse region. The wide range of applicable geographic scales is a problem when exploring alternative strategies in such a region, so a single, multiscaled, technically based planning analysis was designed and conducted to unify decision makers around a comprehensive set of performance goals and the estimated potential effects of all reasonable actions. The analysis, built within an accelerated 10-month time frame under federal scrutiny, relied on participation by elected officials, planners, engineers, and regional stakeholders. It produced a full regionwide identification of long-term performance needs and an exhaustive assessment and prioritization of location-specific strategies. NJTPA applied this prioritization to select strategies to update its long-range transportation plan and to develop specific immediate guidance for implementation agencies.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1858, Transportation Planning and Analysis 2003.

English

p. 124-132

2003

Transportation Research Record

0309085950

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Decision making; Investments; Long range planning; Metropolitan planning organizations; Performance; Strategic planning; Transportation planning

North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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