You can press *1 during the Q&A session to as many questions. The title of today's webinar it is Objectives-Driven, Performance-Based Planning for Operations: A New Resource. I will be giving a brief introduction to the Web conferencing environment before turning the call over to Darren from the Federal Highway Administration. He will serve as the moderator for Today's webinar and it will last approximately and hour and a half with an hour alert to for the presenters and the half of the last half hour for audience questions. During the presentation, if you think of a question you can type it into the smaller text box on the left side of your screen is becoming to use and the question to every one rather than just the presenters. The presenters will not be able to answer your question during the presentation, but Darren will use some of the questions tight in for the last part of the seminar. I will type the address into the box as record the NTOC. The recording and the closed captioning of the seminar will be provided later. We will have you back as the recording of mine for others and in your office that could not attend the meeting. To double the Maine bottle, click on your mouse on the name of the file that you would like to download and click on the button the bottom of the download box that says to say to my computer. And this time I would like to introduce Darren, the moderator of today's webcast. He is the Marketing specialist for the better of the Office of operation and includes overseeing the and rejected it is of the National Transportation coalition. Prior to joining federal highway in 2008 he worked in multiple roles within the community and small federal programs creating jobs for get people with disabilities. Darren received [ indiscernible ] in 2005 and is currently setting transportation planning to back the Virginia Tech masters of Urban and Regional masters of time planning programs because I will turn this over to Darren, who will start as. Thank you, very much, Jocelyn. We are excited to have made great crowd Online and in our conference room to talk to you, once again, about some exciting resources that the DOT Planning for operations department is putting out to bring the department into planning and provide the models and templates for entities to use during that planning is. Last time we met last month, we discussed how regional and local entities on the East Coast are using the approach and content of the resources and today we will hear from two representatives from the West Coast, Anchorage and Portland Oregon. Without further ado I will introduce new to my three colleagues that are sitting in the room with me. First of all, read who has worked with the Federal Highway Administration for the past 22 years and in the current position he is the Program Manager in our offices, and of program he leaves gently with the FHWA Planning and Federal Transit Administration. Prior to his current position he worked in the [ indiscernible ] with the New York City regional Metropolitan Planning Organization and Project Manager for the Cross Harbor freight tunnel project. Previous to working with FHWA he worked with the Texas DOT for their headquarters offices and Office. Additionally, we have Egan Smith, who is with the FHWA Office of Planning and has almost a two decades in transportation engineering, educational experience includes the National front and bachelor of Science and in Civil Engineering,--Masters of Science in Technology Management. Here net FHWA he is a member of the planning oversized rigid team and is the office liaison for Division offices and concentrates on collaborating with the Office of Operations and the NTOC and supporting and advancing United States DOT Planning. We have John who is community planner for the Office of System Planning in FTA in Washington, D.C.. He has been at FTA for the pass four years answers as the Program Manager for the FTA/FHWA transportation planning capacity building program and also has areas of emphasis that include working jointly with FHWA on rulemaking and non-regulatory guidance for Planning practice and advising on the planning aspects of the new transit programs, congested management process and transit at the Table, a Report series that has greater involvement by transit operators in policy and planning, technical activities [ indiscernible ]. With that, I will turn it over to Richard. Thank you. We are excited about having the second of our two webinars on our product that we have been developing jointly. As Darren alluded to, the planning operation has now made crosscutting initiative between our office and the Federal highways and FTA. We are very pleased with the turnout for this webinar and the interest expressed in both of these winners. We are very pleased with the high-level of registration. Darren talked about we will have two excellent presentations by two of the people involved with the creation of the brand-new product that we will be rolling out in the Spring. Uh huh this point I will transferred it over to Egan Smith. I am with the Office of Planning and am very active with the efforts. [ indiscernible ] an opportunity to meet the needs of reliability and efficiency of the transportation system. That is a key effort on our part and we keep involvement with the initiative [ indiscernible ] John with the FTA. Thank you. The environment is very excited about this effort that we are undertaking with the Federal Highway Office of Operation and Planning. FTA has been aware [ indiscernible ] has always been sensitive to issues arising out of concerns of System Operation. They utilize the railway system and are negatively impacted when they are physically and operational problems on the rogue wave resulting [ indiscernible ] if operational and management solutions along with the objectives are defined, transit camp a significantly in reducing the problems. The Model Plan document has a number of fact sheets identifying transit-related and management objectives strategies that FTA is the excited about. With that being said, I will hand it back over to Rick. Thank you. At as point I will give them quick overview in our presentation. We will be talking the federal level and providing an introduction of what is the objective driven, performance based approach that we are advancing with planning for operation and myself and Egan Smith will walk us through an overview of the Model Plan desk Reference document, how to use it and the companion resources that we have developed. As I was mentioning earlier we are very excited that this document has been put together and I hope by the end of the presentation you will see space lot of potential value used by MPOs and operators across the country. When we talk about the objectives driven performance based approach and what it means in terms of the planning process, what we are talking about is effective decision making, where operators and planners are jointly working together to develop goals in Bill long-range plan and measurable objectives that are agreed upon that can really move forward a Region in terms of enhancing the mobility, moving forward with creating more reliable travel and using operations to be able to support that and and in and with that is the whole subject of performance measures, utilizing performance measures to track progress with freezing these agreed upon objectives and goals and then out of that, creating, oftentimes multi jurisdictional projects and programs that everyone can agree upon that can be effective, potentially lower-cost and their capacity and. You will hear the acronym M&O. We are talking about management and operations not maintenance and operation. Will focus on multi modal jurisdictional systems across mode, highways and transit and jurisdictions within a MPO, operators and planners in a MPO and each organizations because the intent of M&O is to create very strong decision making before we move forward in. I am not sure how many of the people had attended workshops that we had held in 2008, we had federal highways and FTA that apply a aggressive program and we had this approach that you see now on the unscreened. The objectives driven performance based approach is where we are enhancing. Going through this, that the top you see the regional goals and motivation, oftentimes with a MPO, if you pick of a long-range plan you will see mobility goal and efficiency goal and taking the concept and adding of lot of commitment to it and moving it beyond a vision to is something that we think this approach will help and is helping MPOs to craft realities where operation is a strong vehicle for advancing and meeting the needs of regional issues. As we go through this chart we see taking the regional goals and motivation and following those into creating operations objectives that I will speak to more in terms of the particular is and using performance measures, which is a very important topic that all of us have been involved with in discussions and organizations of late, utilizing those performance measures as a vehicle for decorating strategies and a project getting its into our law average transportation plan into our [ indiscernible ] document and into implementation and what becomes critical and for those areas [ indiscernible ] during that monitoring and evaluation, taking those agreements that have been brought down into the planning documents and taking them reality check and going back and looking Met the objectives with the performance measures become the full-fledged process in terms of ensuring that we are having meaningful dialogue that people can buy into. In terms of some of the legislative context, I briefly talked about M&O. When we look at SAFTELU there are operational strategy and existing facilities, relieve vehicle contestant, maximize the ability. How is this different from traditional planning? I would say that the real key work with this is the approach, the role of effective decision making, replacing the need for First in the process, the vision first and using that as the basis of for Howe, ultimately, for operation programs and projects, how they get selected in the planning process and when we say this we are talking about having operators within these MPO even sees working on the ability committees with planners and focusing in on agreements and focusing on developing specific and measurable objectives that can be advanced that have made commitment behind them. Part and parcel with this, I did mention in 2008 we had passed the congestion Management process and the book on management operations. Those two documents really became the focus of this effort and out of those workshops we heard them lot of feedback from MPO States about creating an integrated document that we are close to completing and that one thing that we heard in these workshops are comments about to get started with the approach. Of like what I hear [ indiscernible ] and what you are all proposing and what MPO plans are starting to advance. Out of that discussion came the creation of what we are about to release, which is a document that adds value to the dialogue. We are calling it a Model Plan desk reference and the intent of this is to create a resource, a ready resource, not a cover to cover read but not very accessible documents and CD that planners and operators and Regions can take ideas from and really move forward with some serious dialogue with how [ indiscernible ] enhance regional mobility and we do not have the resources we have had in the past to do purchasing right away. How can we use this document to help advance the argument and really work towards faster and more effective solutions to meet our regional meets? In the model plans document we will be providing tangible examples of types of objectives and performance measures and fact sheets that will be readily accessible and can be printed right back out of the document or CD that lists goals and objectives. I will talk about this would actually booked. One of the comments we heard from people is how to make this document a visual cue illustration of how all the pieces fit together? Why a Model Plan? [ indiscernible ] documents only get you so far in. Ideas are great, but where are the resources to back them up? We are back federal highways and FTA to that very seriously what was needed in addition to this document is the Model Plan document. We went go ahead and move forward with that and I will quickly go through and talk about the document, the desk reference content, what you will see in here our sections on developing operations objectives, menus of these objectives, and it was stated plan on how all of this looks and some resources to go with it. Of the types of menus of operation and objectives that you will see in year, we did a why can this thing across the whole subject area of operations. You will find in this document that we cover a wide variety of areas from arterial management and travel information systems to work zones, travel demand Management and relative a serious look that nonrecurring contest and as the main basis for this document, not [ indiscernible ] constrained. Taking this, moving forward when I was talking about the operation and objectives, it becomes the key versus a typical objective in a standard process is the smart objectives, specific objectives that by the approach, measurable that everyone can agree upon that quantify what is the reduction or benefit that is desired to be achieved. The agreement becomes keep. Realistic, the R in this is to the agency commitment. A key portion of this as I was alluding to earlier are the fact sheet and these will be ready made Resources that a person can pick up the best reference and go by subject area that I just pointed out and all of these nonrecurring contestants and the point is to spur ideas. Key components will be the smart operations objectives, the Associated performance measures and the need to advance, what type of data which you potentially need? They also include the types of strategy's. This is the slide that shows what a she will look like, the subject of travel time. I will not read that the slide but have many general description of the subject area and the performance measures, the data needs and resources to help MPOs and presenters have dialogue and a resource that can help them focus, how they will address needs. We have additional sheets that show by type of subject area, there are correlations between these types of congestive. We also have [ indiscernible ] that show us if you are wishing to advance in a certain subject area, such as transit operation, what can be some of the other associated benefits, multi modal, that would have benefits in other areas, as well, for your mobility and efficiency. I will turn this over to Egan Smith who will speak to us about the illustrate portions of the Model Plan document. Thank you, Rick. Let me explain the model plan developed. How did we develop this plan? It is not an entire planned but segments of a plan to consider how operations can be weaved into the plan is because since each metropolitan organization operates in unique situations with unique law [ indiscernible ], regional contest and and air quality issue, staffing and funding constraints and since there might be multiple agency collaboration issues, as well, this all makes presenting them single model plan somewhat impractical. We can assume that all MPOs take similar steps to back their planning development process to address their unique circumstances, we can assume that goals lead to objectives and objectives lead to some form of evaluation criteria, performance measure and [ indiscernible ] performance measures would inform the selection of programs and projects and the ability of [ indiscernible ] feasibility and timing of the implementation of these products desirable that applying the of debt as of me performance based approach in this [ indiscernible ] A service of what can be considered a model plan and follow a similar approach. They illustrate basic, it gets incomprehensive levels [ indiscernible ] to the fact sheet. With that said, the intent of this section is not to write an entire planned or dictate how MPOs should organize, format or prepare their plans because it illustrates how the approach affects who is involved with the planning process and how operations can help achieve regional outcomes and the value [ indiscernible ] measurable objectives to the decision making and implementation phases of the planning process. This does not represent the content of every chapter indicated in the model plan but includes excerpts from from and to sample chapters of a typical plan, goals and objectives and system management and operation chapter and indicate how these two sample chapters fit into the framework and this tends to provide some of the how-to needed to achieve this and we will have presentations from two MPOs that utilize a is similar approach. So, overall, this represents a tool for using the objectives through the performance based approach and is unable to designed transportation planners and their planning partners to develop major transportation plan that includes operation objectives, performance measures and strategies that are relevant to their region that reflect the community's values and constraints and move the region in a direction of improve mobility and safety. [ indiscernible ] a menu of options to incorporate operations into their plan through an organized collection of simple operation objectives and performance measures. To show how this looks in practice, it includes excerpts from male model [ indiscernible ] that I discussed in the last two slides, it was dating the results of the me contract and objectives [ indiscernible ]. More specifically the objectives for that specific operations provides readers with insight into how this operation objectives can be tracked with the right performance measures and data and allows you to find potential strategies to improve transportation systems, efficiency and reliability.The reference is a Companion to all the Federal Highway Administration and FTA resources and will let Rick Some of these documents because thank you, Rick. Thank you, Egan. As pointed out to illustrate the portion of the plan is meant to be a visual cue and show how the pieces fit together and is really exciting about this type of Product. I hope you will all find the value and use. In terms of the resources we are advancing, I spoke earlier about Consolidated guidebook of the objectives driven performance based approach and this has been completed and we are in the publication phase at this point and are expecting a release in March and April of this year and last year in April you might find of interest but we had developed working with MPOs, the number of case studies. There are six of these case studies. Of the technical modeling side we have done things [ indiscernible ] the non-capacity related issues that go on in Transportation [ indiscernible ]. What are some tools that we can promote with bat? We have started going out with workshops across the country. On April first we will have workshops in the Atlanta Regional Commission and workshops will be following in Wisconsin and other parts of the country for approximately the next year and a half. In Edition for the guidebook document completed in march and the Model Plan document, we will be commencing workshops in the summer to bring all of these tools together in addition to a document not listed here that we are working with a number of state DOTs for advancing plans of operation of the statewide level. I would refer to the website the bottom. This is our operation website. The guide book will be posted and I would expect that to be in March. There are these other resources listed in 2007 and other tools are available and can easily be accessed. I would encourage you to look at that. Quickly, the contacts from the federal site, myself, Egan Smith and John are all very excited about the programs because there has been on lot of momentum and interest expressed across the country. We look forward to dancing. Okay. With that, we will get into our presentation. First of all, we will hear from a the beautiful city of Anchorage, from Lance Wilbur--He is responsible for the oversight of maintenance and operation for the region and he serves as the chair of the Anchorage MPO policy committee board the Anchorage Metropolitan area Transportation solution organization. Previous to this he served as the traffic department director for the municipality of Anchorage and the overall direction and administration of long-range transportation planning and--And Signal operations as well as municipal Communication. He served as the chair of the talks MPO Technical Advisory Committee and graduated from Oregon State University and received his master's degree in Urban and Regional--With that, take it away, Lance. Thank you, very much and welcome, everyone. It is a pleasure to be here and what I want to do today [ indiscernible ] give a an overview of Anchorage and at the end of the day, use some of the material to probably already have on hand to implement this operation and planning. We will talk about England and that all MPO plans are unique. The importance of recognizing how the land use plan, transportation plan, how those goals and objectives, some of the things that Rick mentioned on his flight backs, I will use that process that is familiar and used by many MPOs on how we can achieve this idea here. The other thing I think is important at a MPO level is the importance of data. Some of the documents that we have, the status of the system, the document we use to measure our progress and management operations and transit collapse in all modes and talk about how we in Ingrid are using the desk Reference and how other MPOs could be looking for get it and me, as practitioner, due transportation planning, but I think are key pieces that MPO five should be looking at. Maybe some words of device will be given on our experience become little bit of Anchorage we are about 300,000 people, more than 40% of the state of's population lives in encourage. We also have them lot of wildlife that we appreciate. For many MPO plans, they have some urban growth boundaries, their geographical or political. We are more geographical. We have mountains and water on each side. We are constrained by development. [ indiscernible ] and also in anchorage, we are located in one of the busiest airports for cargo and mail lot of professional Plains. We have made the transportation system. A thing about [ indiscernible ]. We are not --We are a one unified governments because we do not have not accountable and multiple cities. For many MPOs, you would think that its a luxury. As Rick was mentioning, the importance of jurisdictional cooperation, we are all in the same house and our MPO and technical committee, there are 11 committees that include transit operators, land-use planners, DOT people, real road, air quality, a great balance. The policy committee is five individuals, the mayor, myself and local, elected officials. It is not a Big Board and we typically meet Monthly. We are designated as a [ indiscernible ] back to back the the 70's and Art in a maintenance condition and--For those that are familiar with our area, the community just north of us is part of the MPO area. Let me begin by talking about Monday bigger perspective than the desk reference itself and I think that many MPO do this and for those that might be new to the MPO process, it is important to recognize this because we have made comprehensive plan and in that, there are many elements and one is our land use document. Within that comprehensive plan is our MPP by the desk Reference terminology, this is the long-range transportation plan and within that, we have a congested management plan and [ indiscernible ] System report and I will talk about how each one of these documents that you probably already have or are working on will help you can move forward on integrating operations into your planning. Let's look a Transportation plan and as you will see in the desk Reference, the key to developing and thinking about putting operations into your planning is a mindset and what this desk Reference is encouraging is that more of the plans should be based on a set of outcomes and we will see is that many transportation plans that should be driven by outcomes, what you see in them are [ indiscernible ]. Use the capital projects but not the desired result. That is a talent on of variety of levels. This does reference will help you move towards that outcome-driven success. This slide here is the representation of the Anchorage Transportation Planning and what our goals look like. Which Rick was mentioning and Egan was alluding to as you move toward your planning process and model plan and have goals, these are the goals that are in the Anchorage MPP and the ones highlighted are that section of our plan that look at outcomes towards implementation. There are other gold in our transportation plan that are included and are important because they are supporting land use or other elements of our overall comprehensive Plan. I do not think you need to be limited to just the ones I should in the previous slide, but in our transportation plan, you'll see these goals and they might look familiar to many MPO plans, large and small. As I mentioned, the congested management plan, I think many people have created and Rick mentioned earlier, how do you blend congested management plans that you have earlier with the management operations? With Anchorage but we have looked and to find out what we already have that helps us move forward and advance or fine-tune a more objective-driven planning process, we have congested management plan that we created years ago and was not requirement under-I am not sure-not SAFTELU, but the ICET. We have made particular objective that we are targeting and will talk about what some of those performance measures we are looking Max. It is a great place to start to look not what kind of system operations or activities you are doing and as I move on, what you will need to be thinking about is how to make them smart. That is going to be important. For example in Anchorage we include these examples here and many others. The operation and management, what we need to do to get better efficiency and reliability of our systems, whether providing information on travel whether. I get my weather information on CNN in. Other parts of the country, what the MPO is looking that is unique to its own place and the type of information and the way you put it out will be unique to every MPO. The guide book will provide that accessibility for Q. This is an observation that I have shared with many of my peers and Rick and Egan and many of the Project Development Team. It seems to be that whatever gets counted [ indiscernible ]. What I mean by that, what is important to a MPO, and whether it is transit or pedestrian or roadway, a MPO will focus the data collection on those things and it has been historically on the roadway, capacity-driven day to information's because some of that is on a federal requirement that we have to do and it might be a state requirement, vehicle miles traveled or that type of information that needs to be available. I would note that a of lot of data you collect is qualitative in a cents, but most is quantitative and balancing that will be unique. Having the data will help you measure your success. I did want to point that out as point here, do not fall victim to dust collecting data that determines-if you are collecting of certain set of data, do not let that drive your objective. Figure out what the objectives are and collect the data you need to measure this. In Anchorage, this will look familiar to many MPOs. These are the performance measures that we looked at in our MPO that our policy committee, figuring out how we would measure the success and improving our system. These are the typical performance measures that you might see in a congested management plan. They are multi modal, which I think is really important for get people to recognize. They look very familiar. And some are not motorized and related to the motorized system, level of service. I think travel times, those are the ones, those are the ones you need to be spending more time and attention to. What is important to the customers is-when you are looking that your performance measures and what you are trying to achieve, you need to be looking out that. In the bottom right back and corner, one of the things we are looking that, this is demographic of the main roadway system that we are running--Strutted tire use, a combination of memory lot of time travel, from the me operational standpoint what performance we are looking that pavement [ indiscernible ]. That they go down about the status of Systems and the reason I want to point this out is that the document for Anchorage is not measure of your success and tells you whether or not your goals and objectives that you created, are you moving in the right direction? Are you moving in the right direction on multiple things? With Anchorage we have been tracking this for multiple years and looked that all modes in Anchorage. In Anchorage, with some exceptions, we are doing very well related and to Howard peers. Overall, our transit system, writer ship is up and our pedestrian usage is up and that has meant lot to do with the management and operations and maintenance of a lot of our systems. I think that one of the good thing she wanted point here is with this information shows is, are removing in the right direction? Even in Anchorage we have some work to do but know what needs to be done. That will be helpful for us. Let me switch gears and talk about the [ indiscernible ] and my sense of why it would be a benefit to MPOs and where I think some of the key elements will be. It is mostly reiterated to what Rick and Egan weren't speaking about. The slide here will recap that. I think is really important to help MPOs think in a particular way is because this graphic here is something you will see in the desk Reference Guide and for me, it really hits home to understand how your outcome is are going to be driven by objectives. I think Rick or someone earlier had mentioned, as an example, we talked about system reliability. Where you are looking for is an outcome of system reliability, actions or reliability, the top of this here, it is neutral. You can apply that to any type of a mode and when you figure out how you will do that, how you are going to measure the outcome of the system, characterized it by this. When you are measuring system reliability and ask yourself how to do that, that one of the ways you want to measure your reliability to it is reduced the [ indiscernible ] in Travel Time. How will you do that? Look at reducing the [ indiscernible ] contestant. How will you do that? Reduce the delay and as an example you might want to look at special events or how would you want to do [ indiscernible ]? You might want to look at Travel Information. You are in the planning process and not thinking about this. You say that we are looking at reducing unscheduled [ indiscernible ]. What you will need to do is ask yourself where you are doing that, why you are doing that. For me and many MPOs, this will answer the simple question, why you do something and how you do it. I encourage you to take them look back this and it will help you in your decision making process, particularly for allocating resources. Selecting operation and objectives, I cannot hammer home how important this is, the need to be smart. For many MPOs [ indiscernible ] you want to meet a particular objective by a particular date. It is not uncommon to be looking in the right direction by a particular percentage is because sometimes it is a challenge to figure out how far you can actually achieve it. For many MPO plans, and in Anchorage, before we started it, we did not know what number reasonable time frame was because we did not have the test. We are collecting that information. Some other observations when looking that the is, look what matters to the people and who are operating the systems because they are operating a Service. What is important to the clients and citizens' clubs that is what needs to be looked Jack. Be careful about feeding the beast. Collecting data for data purposes but is not helpful to measure your outcomes and meet your target is money not well spent. This is a challenge for many MPO live, blending the technical and policies and desires and needs. The son of oh or looking far enough away this because that is a challenge and I recognize it and I think that FHWA and FTA recognize it as well, the real world of Planning. Recognize that it will take time if you are the recently designated MPO, it will take your time to get up to speed and how to create your own plan that benefits you. It will not happen overnight [ indiscernible ] it will be helpful. What we are looking that, we have done some things very well but recognize we have some improvements for a MPO Mike that. I know what we will be doing. We will use the desk reference when it comes out. We have done lot of new faces that do not appreciate the benefits of this. I think many MPOs might already be reading ahead and linking performance to the budget and [ indiscernible ] decision making [ indiscernible ]. We will be listening to refine the objectives we have and the goals to be more outcome driven rather than project driven and a start your connection between our performance measures and our budget. I know that a MPO-level [ indiscernible ]. The performance measure is link to your capital budget [ indiscernible ] are going to be important. Many MPOs have performance-based budgeting. Recognizes that the funding environment will challenge what you do. Maybe in closing some parting words of advice to use what you have. You will not always be starting from ground zero but look that the documents you have and use the desk Reference and define what you already have. Involve the operations [ indiscernible ]. With our MPO we have the transit operator and MPO and are also closely tied to our maintenance and operations and they are cooperative between the state and local area. That is very, very important. It can be a challenged in some places but it is a challenge. Use the guide when you have any chance to look that it and recognize what works for you with a MPO like yours. [ indiscernible ] for what you want but might be too much information for Fairbanks or Boise. Use some common sense. Make sure it is meaningful. In summary, we are unique and are one unified government with close relationships to the State and Transportation [ indiscernible ]. We have that working for us. Make sure that the planning document is more welcome driven [ indiscernible ] recognize what you have there. Collect the data you need and collect what matters. There is never lot of good information in the [ indiscernible ] record. Challengers sell to meet a particular goal by a particular date. There our number lot of useful applications in the desk Reference. I encourage all MPOs to look the desk Reference and appreciate the opportunity to share our experience because thank you. Thank you, very much, but Lance. I am going to introduce you to Deana who is now principle transportation manager with the speak ups because she manages the regional mobility program accordance the development, implementation and monitoring of regional transportation system management and strategies, partnership with transport, the regional [ indiscernible ] Advisory Committee answers as the Metro regional planners because prior to working at Metro she was 11 years with the city of Port and working on them variety of long-range multi modal projects including the port and freight master plan, transportation system plan and numerous corridor [ indiscernible ] studies. Have a master's degree in urban and regional planning from Portland State University and a batch of our in political silence and then science from of the center of campus-science from UCLA. Thank you [ indiscernible ] I have the pleasure to participate in the part of the creation of the desk Reference with doing this out of date of our long-range plan that we have the 2035 mode 17. Because our region has been actively and vault with using the FHWA objective-driven approach with our planning I think I offered some useful advice to the desk Reference development but we were able to actually bring some of the good ideas that we got back in and incorporate it within our planning. Over the next several minutes I will be walking through and sharing a case study of how we approach to this. Does not brief overview, I want to share the policy framework of the outcome planning and will talk about or performance management system and how we integrated operations into performance-based Planning. It is a if you find facts about Metro, first of all, our Portland region, Metro is the MPO for the Portland Region. --A strong relationship with our neighbor to the north of Vancouver, Washington.