Key Issues in Transportation Programming: Summary of a Conference

The Key Issues in Transportation Programming Conference was held November 12-14, 2006, in Seattle, Washington. This conference highlighted successful approaches to multimodal programming and its links to planning and performance measures to support the core objectives of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) and the general objective of effective use of transportation funds. The conference opened with four workshops: Data, and Methods; Cash Forecasting and Management Processes and Their Relationship to Programming; Linking Planning and Programming; and Implications of SAFETEA-LU for Programming. The conference was organized around a series of plenary sessions and breakout sessions that focused on the following issues: Institutions and organizations; Program development; Program delivery; Ballot box programming; Dealing with uncertainty; and The planning and programming connection. This report contains summaries of the plenary and breakout sessions. A list of conference participants is included.