AASHTO Journal, 14 March 2014
The Transportation Research Board has this week opened registration for a webinar that will explore two second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) products: “Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning (C08)” and “Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making (C02).” The webinar is part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays series, which highlights various SHRP2 products every two weeks.
SHRP2’s C08 created an interactive Vision Guide that helps practitioners better integrate transportation decisions with social, economic, and environmental factors. The C02 product includes a Capacity Performance Measures web resource that lets users browse individual planning factors and generate a report with a set of measures relevant to any given project.
Those participating in the webinar will talk about how the public involvement process of community visioning can be integrated into effective collaborative planning of new highway capacity projects, learn how to use the Vision Guide to prepare and implement a visioning process, list the five categories/stages of the planning process and the performance measures included in each framework and tool, and learn to use the C02 framework and tool to pick the right performance measures for integration into planning and project development processes.
Presenters for the webinar include American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Matt Hardy, Federal Highway Administration’s Larry Anderson, and Cambridge Systematics, Inc. representatives Evan Enarson-Hering and Hugh Louch. TRB’s David Plazak and Stephen Andrle will moderate the discussion.
The free webinar will take place Tuesday, April 1 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EDT. TRB administers the SHRP2 program under a memorandum of understanding with AASHTO and the FHWA. Advanced registration is required.
Additional information on the webinar, including registration details, is available here. Further details on the SHRP2 program can be found at SHRP2.transportation.org.