A New Vision of Mobility: Guidance to Foster Collaborative Multimodal Decision Making (jointly with TCRP RRD 65)

Transportation managers today face the challenge of managing their resources better. To rise to the occasion, transportation managers must find creative ways to share ideas, information, funding, facilities, and even staff. This requirement has led agencies to identify partners and realign roles on the basis of who can best deliver a given service or function. To simplify matters, six environments for collaboration have been identified: (1) Institutional collaboration and planning for transportation system management and operations; (2) Provision of coordinated system operations for expected or unexpected events; (3) Management of assets across modal boundaries; (4) Institutional collaboration to coordinate transportation and land use decision making; (5) Integrated traveler information systems; and (6) Mobility services. Details of each of these six environments are provided in this digest and common themes are identified.