Resource: White Paper: The Congestion Management Process for State and Metropolitan Transportation Planning

NCHRP 8-36 Task 76b - This paper investigates the provision of SAFETEA-LU calling for an objectives-driven, performance-based approach to the congestion management process. The change is intended to address congestion management through a process that provides for effective management and operations, an enhanced linkage to the planning process, based on cooperatively developed travel demand reduction and operational management strategies as well as capacity increases.