Technology and Collaboration in Effective Transportation Policy - FY2008 TechPlan
Principal Investigator:
John Bryson, Associate Dean for Research, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Co-Investigators:
- Barbara Crosby, Associate Professor , Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
- Melissa Stone, Associate Professor , Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Project Summary:
The problems faced by public managers today are often too large to be solved by a single entity and require collaboration across government, nonprofit, and business sectors. As new technologies and systematic approaches transform the transportation field, cross-sector collaboration has become an increasingly important policy development and implementation approach for policymakers and managers. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and other technologies provide tools that both drive and enable collaboration to occur. Particularly within the transportation field, an assemblage of technologies is often critical to implementing system-wide strategies aimed at, for example, mitigating traffic congestion, ensuring highway safety, and increasing the mobility of people and goods. In many cases, designers and implementers of effective transportation policies must combine a variety of technologies with deft relationship building and management. Through in-depth analysis of the political, technical, and management processes required in the development and implementation of the Urban Partnership Agreement at multiple levels of government, this research study is examining how technology and collaborative processes may be combined to achieve important transportation goals and create public value more generally.
Sponsors:
- ITS Institute (RITA)
Project Details:
- Start date: 06/2007
- Project Status: Completed
- Research Area: Planning and Environment