Guide to Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability (2011) / Chapter Skim
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For any process to remain beneficial, it should be developed in such a way that it allows for innovation or some level of flexibility to integrate with established processes or institutional cultures. Processes that are not flexible and remain static may be effective initially in improving travel time reliability, but as travel conditions, travel patterns, and other factors that affect reliability change over time, a static process may lose its effectiveness and impact.
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A number of other common obstacles to process integration were identified. For instance, departments of transportation are historically construction and maintenance focused and not operations focused.
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These are examples of processes that are already institutionalized, to varying degrees, within many transportation agencies. Each of these planning efforts brings together multiple stakeholders and involves a close review of current operations related to areas that affect reliability, such as incident management, traffic operations, and congestion management.
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Opportunities for Process Integration Development of operational concepts and integration of multiple systems that affect travel reliability Development of concepts of operations including operations that directly affect reliability Development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies to reduce congestion
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