The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently held its Committee on Performance-Based Management or CPBM’s Annual Meeting & Peer Exchange in Baltimore; a meeting focused on how state transportation agencies can use performance management strategies to better respond to uncertainty.
[Above photo by the Maryland DOT]
Hosted by the Maryland Department of Transportation September 23-25, the AASHTO CPBM annual gathering detailed a variety of best practices to help enhance transportation agency adaptability and resilience – focusing on risk management tactics and ways to more effectively convey uncertainty within practical performance reporting scenarios.
The committee also unveiled the work completed so far on its CPBM Research Roadmap at its annual meeting; a guide formulated to help advance performance management practices within the transportation sector.
Sessions at CPBM’s annual meeting also focused on how to use transportation performance management or TPM strategies to improve data-based decision making – a framework that allows state agencies to set clear goals, measure progress, and adapt strategies in real time.
“Transportation agencies are facing unprecedented challenges driven by new technologies, climate change and extreme weather events, evolving work patterns, and complex mobility ecosystems,” noted Christos Xenophontos, assistant director for administrative services for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and CPBM’s chair.
“These uncertainties require more than just reactive fixes; they demand a proactive and strategic approach and for agencies to shift from the traditional ‘predict and provide’ planning model to one that is more flexible, agile, resilient, and socially and environmentally sustainable,” he said.
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