TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to produce a guidebook that demonstrates how a transportation agency can improve its scoping process and practices. The project will also develop a comprehensive and scalable scoping process template and related tools to support the guidebook that will enable a transportation agency to produce a project cost estimate and schedule that facilitates programming decision making and subsequent project delivery activities. Proposals are due October 27, 2011.