This issue of TR News assembles a comprehensive how-to on performance management in transportation. Authors explore current thinking, lessons learned, tools and techniques, and issues related to performance management—what works and what does not. Features detail the experience of a CEO in championing performance management; how state DOTs are using performance measures in long-range planning; successful efforts to communicate performance management information; development of organizational support for performance management; underpinnings of performance measurement and decision making with quality information; the interrelationship between transportation asset management and performance management; and more.
The July-August 2014 issue of TR News includes the following articles:
Performance Management in Practice: Working Together to Improve Results
The Benefits of Performance Management: A Chief Executive Officer’s Perspective
Integrating Performance Measures into States’ Long-Range Transportation Plans
Telling Our Stories Powerfully, One Data Set at a Time
Organizational Support for Performance Management
Evaluating Transportation System Performance: Mapping Out a National Framework
Performance Management for All: Building on the States’ Robust Foundation
Partners in Performance: Working Together to Transform the Nation’s Transportation System
Transportation Performance Management: Theory and Practice, Challenges, and Strategies for Success
Transportation Asset Management and Performance Management: A Symbiotic Relationship
Moving from Reactive to Strategic Decision Making: Ten Basic Steps Toward Performance Management