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The Whakatane District Council 2011/2012 TAMP outlines the agency’s strategic goals and provides a framework for an integrated planning practice, linking Asset Management Plans to the Long Term Plan and Annual Plans.

NCHRP Report 708 provides an overview of the state of sustainability practice in the transportation industry and details for improving sustainability practice within an agency. This report also includes an exploration of sustainability-related performance measures, including data sources and example of use.

Required by the 2009 Financial Accountability Act all statutory bodies of the Queensland Government are required to maintain systems of risk management. This document outlines the new standard of risk management for Queensland, focusing mainly on defining the risk management process and the integration of risk management framework into government agencies.

The Muswellbrook Shire Council 2011 TAMP includes agency goals for maintaining the quality, function, and safety of the transportation network. The document also outlines key performance measures, with a desired level of service, a process for determining the performance measure, established targets, and current funded performance.

This plan describes the maintenance, operations, and intended improvements of the state highways in New Zealand. The plan is mostly concerned with the demands on the various programs and infrastructures that New Zealand transit overseas. It also describes the challenges of bringing a management plan into actual use in everyday work in order to maximize the value of such a plan.

This NCHRP report supplements NCHRP report 666 “Target-Setting Methods and Data Management to Support Performance-Based Resource Allocation by Transportation Agencies.” It functions as a resource on how transportation agencies can use risk and data management to improve resource allocation and to set performance targets. The report also contains advice that may be of interest of the management of agencies, and also contains case studies about effective data and risk management for performance-based resource allocation.

The Australian National Risk Assessment Model (ANRAM) helps identify and manage risk on roadways. Both fatal and severe crash risk hazards are identified, and the risk is managed through programs that reduce the crash risk through the road system. The report details the development of ANARM, and also serves as a guide to implement the model on a practical level.

Departments of Transportation (DOTs) face myriad risks both in long term planning and in the day-to-day functions of the agency. This report describes how the leadership at DOTs currently implement risk management protocols, and to identify which strategies were most effective. A survey of state DOTs was constructed to both identify the perceptions of risk and risk management and to detail the effect those risk management practices how the on the agency's strategic goals.

This digital booklet provides information intended for road safety professionals about how to effectively promote road safety in Canada. It details Canada’s Road Safety Strategy (RSS), which emphasizes the primary risk groups, such as young drivers, drivers with medical conditions, vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and motorcyclists, and high risk drivers, such as aggressive drivers including speeders, impaired drivers, or those who do not wear seat restraints. The booklet contains a wealth of data on road accidents both in and outside Canada.

This guidance explains the concepts supporting the Collaborative Planning System, a lean methodology comprising a series of tools, approaches and processes. The Collaborative Planning System incorporates production control, collaborative mapping, and process improvement. This guide is intended for transportation practitioners who already have an understanding of basic lean principles and wish to implement the Collaborative Planning System in their organization.

Transit Economic Requirements Model (TERM)–Local Investment Tool Edition (Lite), TERM For Agency Long Range Capital Planning. Presented at the Third State of Good Repair Roundtable

Objective: To develop a guide for state DOTs and other transportation agencies to use to measure the sustainability of their networks, systems, facilities, projects, and activities, at the appropriate scales, stages (long-range planning, programming, project development, design, construction, maintenance, operations), and time frames.