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Summary As long as state and local transportation agencies have delivered programs, the allocation of resources to programs of work has been an essential aspect of decision making. However, as transportation agency missions, multimodal systems, transportation markets, and the costs of preserving existing assets have grown so has the complexity of transportation program-level funding needs and tradeoffs.
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2 growing needs. Needs are growing in the cost of preserving the system and the cost of adapting to changing geographic and demographic patterns that place demands on transportation infrastructure.
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3 Survey findings show that most state agencies include the major highway and bridge asset categories within a strategic allocation process; however, a much lower number include modal programs, such as transit, aviation, or freight, beyond the required matches associated with federal programs. Causes of this include: • States continue to have difficulties comparing modes and programs outside the major highway asset categories owing to less established practices for needs assessment and poorer data quality.
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4 In all four state case examples, the state DOTs have developed or procured specific tools and technologies to demonstrate expected performance returns on investment at the project level and used these results in the aggregate to explain and describe programmatic and performance allocations. Massachusetts has developed a simple tool that is used within a framework for resource allocation.
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