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... 86 APPENDIX A Poster Summaries Twenty-two posters were presented at the confer-ence in an interactive poster session. The poster authors were available during the session to discuss key elements of the projects and to answer questions.
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... 87POSTER SUMMARIES for easy viewing and downloading of Atlas data: http:// www.oregonmetro.gov. aggregated PerformanCe measures for interdePendent assets Mohammadsaied Dehghanisanij and Gerardo Flintsch, Virginia Institute of Technology This poster evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to measuring the performance of interdependent assets.
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... 88 performance measurement of transportation systems in TAM. Again, several of the few agencies that have applied risk assessment methods have done so when conducting scenario analyses.
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... 89poster summaries input is a factor. This input is valuable because, as mentioned in the international scan, risk assessment can be used as a way to inform and garner support from elected officials (2)
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... 90 performance measurement of transportation systems measurement with measures that can be tied directly to the objectives. This framework uses a set of focus areas to classify and describe the broad functions of a transportation agency in support of its core mission and functions.
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... 91poster summaries changed the company's estimate of risk, or resulted in economic benefit, including impact on revenue and size of the market. Although the retrospective survey was designed to assess the impact of the program, it began with about 900 potential companies that had been involved with the program over the course of more than 5 years -- an evaluation effort in both cost and time that would be difficult for many transportation research programs to replicate.
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... 92 performance measurement of transportation systems tration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 2010.
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... 93poster summaries PerformanCe-based metriCs: the rider's PersPeCtive Janice S Wells and Ellyn Shannon, Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York)
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... 94 performance measurement of transportation systems Findings MTA and its operating agencies provide some of the most transparent and detailed operational metrics among U.S. transit agencies, and this information is readily available on the MTA website.
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... 95poster summaries investment in highway preservation and capacity. The model is designed for use with data from the national sample of highway sections in the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS)
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... 96 performance measurement of transportation systems Section 2. Performance Measures (orange)
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... 97poster summaries the Virginia DOT has adopted a performance-based approach to identifying M&O needs of many assets on the basis of inventory and condition. The improved data on inventory, condition, and performance-based needs led to a 10 percent increase ($97.4 million)
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... 98 performance measurement of transportation systems performance consequences associated with a reducedfunding scenario. The M&O needs assessment tool has allowed users to compare funding scenarios with different performance targets.
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... 99poster summaries freeWay PerformanCe initiative traffiC analysis states Jim Wang, Guillaume Shearin, and Brad Lane, Atkins Global This poster illustrates the methodology of the Freeway Performance Initiative, an example of performance-based decision making for analyzing the existing and future operating conditions of freeway corridors and identifying and prioritizing improvement strategies. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)
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... 100 performance measurement of transportation systems categories for each of the 10 states in the Mid-America Freight Coalition. A focus was placed on using data that are publicly or widely available, or both.

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