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Transportation agencies across the United States are afflicted with aging infrastructure, unstable funding, changing performance expectations, and programs that need updating to meet future demand effectively and efficiently. Yet, these agencies are charged with ensuring ongoing alignment between the life cycle cost, capacity, extent, condition, and function of a piece of infrastructure or a program and its intended current and future use.

The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 917: Right-Sizing Transportation Investments: A Guidebook for Planning and Programming provides a guideline for identifying right-sizing opportunities where greater social and economic value can be realized by repurposing, reusing, or fundamentally resizing existing transportation system assets.

There is an executive summary associated with this report, as well as several supplementary materials, including:

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Right-Sizing Transportation Investments: A Guidebook for Planning and Programming. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25680.

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232 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25680
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Front Matter i-xii
Chapter 1 - Introduction to Guidance 1-5
Chapter 2 - Policy Guidance 6-64
Chapter 3 - Integration of Right-Sizing Toolkit with Policy Guidance 65-72
Chapter 4 - Technical Guidance 73-161
References and Bibliography 162-164
Appendix A - Implementation of Research Findings and Products 165-172
Appendix B - Selection and Development of a Right-Sizing Toolkit 173-176
Appendix C - Synthesis of the Literature and Practice with Interpretation of Relevance for Right-Sizing 177-212
Appendix D - Bibliography by Topic Area 213-218

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