The Value of a Business Case in Mainstreaming TSMO

7. Resources for Developing a TSMO Business Case

This section provides examples and a brief description of resources that can help develop a TSMO business case.

Advancing Transportation Systems Management and Operations: Making the Business Case for Institutional, Organizational, and Procedural Changes Business Case

This document provides a process for developing and communicating the business case for making institutional, organizational, and procedural changes to advance TSMO. It is structured in four parts that discuss how to get started, prepare the business case, develop agency leadership support, and tailor the business case for specific audience.

Developing and Sustaining a Transportation Systems Management and Operations Mission for Your Organization: A Primer for Program Planning

This primer was developed to help State DOTs, MPOs, and regional operations organizations consider the key elements of TSMO program planning and enhance their TSMO capabilities. A key strategic element of TSMO program planning is the business case. This section of the primer provides an overview of a TSMO business case and some considerations for starting the conversation within an agency.

Second Strategic Highway Research Program Materials

The second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) portfolio includes a number of tools and resources that can be helpful in developing a business case for TSMO. Organizing for Reliability Tools (L06/L01/L31/L34) includes guidance on organizing to advance systems operations and management (L06/L31) and integrating business processes to improve travel-time reliability (L01/L34). Framework for Improving Travel-Time Reliability (L17) provides a range of resources and expertise about transportation systems operations and reliability.

Transportation Systems Management and Operations in Action

This publication provides an overview of various TSMO strategies and examples of their deployment across the country. It also discusses what TSMO is and the benefits associated with TSMO.

Transportation Systems Management and Operations in Smart Connected Communities

This primer helps make the case for TSMO in communities that are taking advantage of innovative technologies and collaborative institutional arrangements. It provides several examples of how TSMO can leverage extensive information networks and communications protocols that allow public and private entities to go beyond single agencies, functions, or jurisdictions to improve quality of life.

Transportation Systems Management and Operations Fact Sheet Series: Communicating the Role and Value of Transportation Systems Management and Operations to Other Programs

The TSMO Fact Sheet Series addresses nine topic areas to provide context for how TSMO can support, impact, and relate to State and local transportation agency functions such as design, maintenance, and safety to support stronger connections between these disciplines and TSMO.

National Operations Center of Excellence Case Studies

Beginning in 2018, the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) initiated TSMO Awards to celebrate TSMO successes and to showcase agency practices. These awards and the submitted projects are being shared on the NOCoE knowledge center as case studies that highlight successful and innovative TSMO practices.