Data management life cycle /

Transportation inefficiencies cost money, reduce safety, increase pollution-causing emissions, and take time away from people's lives. In transportation, decision-makers use data to assess alternatives, weigh tradeoffs, and to evaluate performance. Stakeholders use data to assess the comprehens...

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Main Authors: Miller, Kristi (Kristine Marie) (Author), Miller, Matt (Transportation researcher) (Author), Moran, Maarit M. (Author), Boya, Dai (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [College Station, Texas] : Texas A & M Transportation Institute, Transportation Policy Research Center, March 2018.
Series:PRC ; 17-84 F
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Transportation inefficiencies cost money, reduce safety, increase pollution-causing emissions, and take time away from people's lives. In transportation, decision-makers use data to assess alternatives, weigh tradeoffs, and to evaluate performance. Stakeholders use data to assess the comprehensive performance of a transportation organization. The public usesdata to inform their personal decisions and travel behavior. Transportation data is a key component for policy research and performance management.This reportprovides a roadmap of data management to be used for high-levelprioritization for future research efforts. Researchers developed the data management life cycle to organize data, characterize its nature and value over time, and identify policy implications of cross-cutting data management issues.
Physical Description:1 online resource (47 pages : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-47).
Access:Open access content