Specifications include, but are not limited to: The objective of this research is to prepare guidance to improve data utilization in support of transportation performance management. The deliverable(s) from this research should be useful to practitioners and decision makers within transportation agencies. The final deliverable(s) of this research should:Examine leading practices regarding data utilization to support transportation performance management including specifying, defining, obtaining, storing, managing, analyzing, using, sharing, presenting, and communicating data.Identify contributing factors, both positive and negative, to the effective use of data to support transportation performance management. (These factors may be current, emerging, and projected.) Present conclusions, cross-cutting themes, lessons, and strategies for overcoming shortcomings based on examples that will assist practitioners and decision makers to better utilize data to support transportation performance management. Building on other completed research, prepare an approach to assist transportation agencies implement a self-assessment on data utilization by identifying the critical building blocks for transportation practitioners to improve their efforts to specify, define, obtain, store, manage, analyze, use, share, present, and communicate data to support transportation performance management.
