NCHRP, Report 806: Cross-Asset Decision-Making

High Street’s Dr. Kevin Ford co-authored NCHRP Report 806 which included a state-of-the-art approach to performance-based decision-making. The developed methodology links planning to programming through a data-driven framework that allows agencies to prioritize projects and optimize allocation decisions based on performance preferences while accommodating varying levels of agency maturity. High Street additionally created a supplemental tool to prove out the concept – workshopped at multiple AASHTO and TRB events – that includes genetic algorithms to estimate the minimum cost to achieve different objectives.