This report, first in a series of five risk management reports produced by FHWA, provides an overview of risk management. The report offers guidance on identifying and assessing risk, and building a risk management framework at the program and enterprise level.
This report explores resource allocation based on the analysis of system performance, in order to ensure fulfillment of performance goals. The report evaluates the applications of a framework and tool developed by NCHRP Project 08-91 to offer guidance on implementation of performance goals.
This report summarizes the results of a series of case studies on strategies for improving travel time reliability.
This Guidebook identifies and analyzes trends in performance management to offer guidance on implementation of an effective performance-based planning program. The Guidebook details the development of important elements and potential impact of a performance-based program in a transportation agency.
This FHWA literature review includes observations about target setting for the traffic fatality performance target and outlines examples of approaches to target setting from several international agencies.
This report summarizes the proceedings of a 2013 peer exchange on safety target setting. Participants presented on their agency’s approaches to technical and stakeholder challenges, successful strategies, and the results of safety target setting.
This compendium, composed by FHWA in 2013, documents the results of a FHWA survey on the current methodology in use for the development and achievement of safety targets.
The FHWA Safety Target Setting Final Report outlines the benefits of instituting a framework for safety target setting and provides guidance for implementing evidence-based target setting.
Written by FHWA in 2015, this report outlines the role of safety target setting in urbanized and nonurbanized areas.
This report documents the findings of a research project on trends in performance management. The report includes a review of current practices in performance measures and target setting, and recommendations for designing an effective set of policies and goals.