Transportation Research Board Guide to Collaboration

A new vision of mobility: guidance to foster collaborative multimodal decision making.

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Transportation Guide to Collaboration is an entry from the Research Results Digest from January 2004 featuring the results of a study about the collaboration between transportation managers, municipal planning agencies and private planning/designing professionals.  In the body of the study, The TRB provides six “environments” where collaboration is clearly beneficial to transportation managers. The study also identified possible challenges that may be encountered from collaboration, and the need for a leader to manage and organize the collaborative groups.

Step 6

One of the six environments “Management of Assets Across Modal Boundaries” relates to Step 6 in regards to industries being stimulated through an interdependent growth plan.  The document explains through multimodal transportation planning, smaller ongoing development is more beneficial than single mode large scale expansion.

Step 8

The “Institution Collaboration and Planning for Transportation System Management and Operations” and “Institutional Collaboration to Coordinate Transportation and Land Use Decision Making” environments can be referenced in Step 8 of the Freight System Action Plan. The formed think-tank will act as a broker for transportation services as well as bring together federal and state transportation planning with local land use boards in order to create a transportation plan.  The think-tank is referred to in the document as “Transportation Management Association” or TMA.  The TMA will act as a third party decision maker for policy development amongst the collaboration. “The combined effect of multiple strategies will be greater than the sum of separate strategies; these strategies will be implemented by several players who need to share common information.”