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165 A P P E N D I X A Implementation of Research Findings and Products The findings of the guidebook can be implemented by agencies through incremental incorporation of recommended methods and tools or through the development of formal rightsizing policies in transportation agencies. While the guidebook itself has a strong focus on implementation strategies and success factors, this appendix calls out some important success factors for implementation of the research, as well as suggested institutions to lead the application of findings, issues affecting implementation, and methods for identifying and measuring impacts of implementation.
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166 Right-Sizing Transportation Investments: A Guidebook for Planning and Programming specific processes, in which applying a right-sizing method or tool may yield information that supports needs assessments and planning or programming decisions in the absence of any other policy. Furthermore, when agency staff are scoping corridor studies, special studies, small area plans, or other efforts for consultants or other partners, they may wish to call for the application of selected methods shown in Chapter 4 within the broader scope of such efforts.
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Implementation of Research Findings and Products 167 innovations both at the TRB annual meeting and in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Finally, it is likely that the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
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168 Right-Sizing Transportation Investments: A Guidebook for Planning and Programming programs that integrate economics with asset management and travel demand information. Refer to Sections 2.3 and 2.4 on DOT-initiated right-sizing and integrating uncertainty.
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Implementation of Research Findings and Products 169 Equating Right-Sizing with Disinvestment Lack of Internal Capacity or Authority Implementation of right-sizing policies or tactics will be challenged by the fact that agencies are not accustomed to viewing their assets in business terms or engaging in the types of relationships and transactions right-sizing entails. The capacity-building section of Chapter 2 largely addresses this concern.
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170 Right-Sizing Transportation Investments: A Guidebook for Planning and Programming Methods of Identifying and Measuring Impacts of Implementation Key methods for identifying and measuring impacts of implementation include enlisting implementing agencies in self-reporting over time and possibly engaging in follow-up studies after agencies have implemented the research for a number of years. The guidebook does not specify methods for tracking and measuring implementation outcomes; however, the topic is ripe for subsequent research by FHWA or NCHRP.
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Implementation of Research Findings and Products 171 The guidebook offers a framework for both the incremental development and implementation of right-sizing policies in transportation agencies and a variety of practical methods that agencies can include in their existing business processes to bring right-sizing objectives and opportunities into agency investment decisions. The guidebook offers specific recommendations for how to implement right-sizing techniques in existing DOT business processes, as well as guidance for some policies specific to right-sizing.
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172 Right-Sizing Transportation Investments: A Guidebook for Planning and Programming Presentation of the outcomes and lessons learned from these pilots, documentation of the outcomes of these pilots for other practitioners, and publication of pilot case studies as a supplement to the original guidebook. Table 37 Potential opportunities for right-sizing implementation.
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