Florida Department of

TRANSPORTATION

Office of Policy Planning

1. 2010 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions & Performance - This report summarizes the condition, performance, and future capital investment needs of the Nation's highway and transit systems.
2. Best Planning Practices: Metropolitan Transportation Plans - This report examines the critical role Metropolitan Transportation Plans can play as the cornerstone of metropolitan area transportation planning processes—linking regional visions to financially realistic plans for multimodal transportation systems, and providing strategic direction for the investment decisions in Transportation Improvement Programs.
3. Transportation: Key Issues and Management Challenges - This testimony discusses key issues and management challenges facing our nation’s transportation system, as well as the Department of Transportation, as Congress deliberates transportation policy and funding issues: funding the nation’s transportation system, refocusing and restructuring surface transportation policies and programs, improving transportation safety, implementing the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), and improving information security.
4. A New Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Investment - This report provides an analysis of the economic effects of infrastructure investment in the United States.
5. Research on the Safety Impacts of Speed Limiter Device Installations on Commercial Motor Vehicles: Phase II - This report identifies and assesses the impacts of implementing speed limiters in commercial vehicle fleet operations. It focuses on a detailed research design and analysis, best practices applications, and identification of carrier, insurer, and enforcement official perspectives related to speed limiter implementation.
6. Miscellaneous Reports
   • Annual Energy Outlook 2012 - This outlook provides the basis for examination and discussion of energy market trends and serves as a starting point for analysis of potential changes in U.S. energy policies, rules, or regulations or potential technology breakthroughs. Its projections focus on the factors that shape U.S. energy markets in the long term, under the assumption that current laws and regulations remain generally unchanged throughout the projection period.
   • Introduction to managed lanes - This white paper explains managed lanes to give transportation agencies a foundational understanding of this relatively new congestion-control strategy.