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Description
Proiect Puroose: is to provide guidelines for developing or adjusting a state level
transportation agency's organization to better accommodate their varied policy (including
long-term planning and financing) and administrative (including professional project
delivery) missions. The initial step will be the assessment of organizationally based
policy and administrative issues associated with current structures. The issues will be
analyzed to provide the criteria for modifications to organizational structures. The
project team will classify state agency structure types based on the review of existing
structures and their policy vs. administrative characteristics (including their planning and
management systems). Additional 'model' structures will be investigated as they are
described in organizational literature and appear in other functional areas of
government, quasi-governmental entities, and the private sector. The guide will provide
information regarding the strengths and weaknesses of several organizational scenarios
in conjunction with selected values, criteria or functions to be optimized. An agency
head and/or those responsible for executive branch long-term policy effectiveness and
program administration efficiency could benefit from the study information. Those
intending to restructure a state agency would have comparative performance information
for alternative organizational scenarios and options to better judge the potential of
modifications.
Proiect Work Description: The major tasks of the project work are as follows:
1. Review the current structures being used by selected state transportation
agencies and their organizationally based problems, challenges, and issues
2. Identify those that have been reorganized or modified most recently and the
rationale for their changes
3. Determine recent structural arrangements or adjustments that may have been
developed to optimize specific policy or administrative concerns of a state
transportation agency (including any program planning and management
systems or project development processes)
4. Identify and describe the prototypical structures found in the organizational and
management literature that may relate to state transportation agencies
5. Identify structures that may have potential as found in other functional areas
and/or levels of government as well as quasi-governmental agencies
6. Classify the various structures and determine their associated strengths and
weaknesses based on criteria derived from an understanding of the problems,
challenges and issues
Duplicating/Printing
Resource Materials
1,850
250
150
7. Prepare a guide to understanding state transportation agency organizational
alternatives (or scenarios) and the process of organization planning and
development for a state transportation agency as well as the ongoing supporting
systems for program planning and management
Proiect Schedule and Deliverables: The study will result in a published guide for use by
those officials and professionals interested in improving a state transportation agency's
policy effectiveness and administrative efficiency. It will include specific alternative
organizational structures and their associated planning and management systems and
project development processes with a discussion of their primary objectives and
operational strengths and weaknesses.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 2/1/04 → 12/31/05 |
Funding
- KY Transportation Cabinet
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Academy for Community Transportation Innovation
Crabtree, J., Hartman, D. & Toussaint, P.
7/1/02 → 6/30/12
Project: Research project