Federal Highway Administration Business Planning Process

This document lays out the process for expanding the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) initiative into an integrated business planning process that links planning with resources and accomplishments.

This document lays out the process for expanding the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) initiative into an integrated business planning process that links planning with resources and accomplishments.

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 326: Strategic Planning and Decision Making in State Departments of Transportation examines state and provincial transportation departments' experience with strategic planning and synthesizes current approaches to linking strategic planning with other decision-making processes, including operational and tactical planning, resource allocation, performance management, and performance measurement.

TRB Special Report 256 - Managing Technology Transfer: A Strategy for the Federal Highway Administration addresses how the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration selects research products for technology transfer and transfers those products to the highway industry, in particular the state and local agencies that own, operate, and maintain the nation’s highways.