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Transportation Planning

Performance-Based Planning and Programming Isn't Static

Analyze, Prioritize, Manage, Track and Report decisions and tradeoffs with a solution built to keep pace with modern transportation planning

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From long-range vision to funded projects.

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Situation

Every Decision Comes with Constraints to Navigate and Outcomes to Measure

When you're responsible for planning transportation improvements and measuring their impact, you need a solution that accounts for your priorities and constraints and records and reports the outcomes of your decisions

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Solution

Understand Trade-Offs and Determine the Best Course of Action

Decision Lens structures your decision data, provides context, and provides decision science-based optimization frameworks so you can base your actions off an actionable view of tradeoffs.

Solution

Manage & Process Inputs

Process stakeholder input and planning data to identify current and future transportation needs.

Use decision science methodologies to identify your organization’s goals and objectives.
Manage project intake and data validation
Simulate strategic decisions to identify and adjust desired outcomes

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Prioritize & Program Projects

Prioritize investments subject to fiscal constraints with scenario modeling.

Determine the best use of existing funds based on your organization’s goals and objectives
Run scenarios of multiple spending plans to evaluate outcomes
Finalize outputs for your mandated transportation planning products

Maintain Compliance

Maintain compliance of key planning products with real-time change management.

Update plans and understand tradeoffs as priorities and fiscal considerations evolve
Manage and document approvals
Communicate project updates quickly

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Standardize project intake, scoring, and performance calculations using consistent, reusable criteria aligned to statewide and regional goals.

Engage stakeholders, districts, and planning partners in a shared platform that captures input, documents rationale, and strengthens alignment.

Model funding constraints, compare alternatives, and evaluate trade-offs before committing dollars to your STIP or TIP.

Engage multiple stakeholders and planning partners in a shared platform that allows in-app communication, tracks activity and updates and strengthens alignment.

Transparent Process

Transportation Planning & Programming Division

A transportation division modernized its requirements collection from a Sharepoint-based manual, non-collaborative approach to an automated, transparent system.

The new system provides a more complete view of projects with statuses, access to up-to-date data and a way to prioritize and score.

With a mix of date-driven and qualitative criteria the team is using Decision Lens to define a scoring system that is transparent to requestors.

Improve Selection & Tracking

Transportation Alternatives

An infusion of funds received through IIJA required a streamlining of their new project request process including collecting and tracking project data, prioritizing requests, tracking funding and scheduling projects through 2027.

Together, we built a portfolio to represent their data from intake to scheduling with powerful user permissions to foster collaboration. The team can now develop scenarios with multiple funding options to determine the best mix of projects to fund.

Focused on the public-sector, Decision Lens offers various ways for agencies to purchase our software. Our Contracting Vehicles Page offers a great overview. If you're looking for more information, you can always contact sales@decisionlens.com to have your specific question answered.

As a commercial-off-the-shelf solution, Decision Lens can be rapidly deployed into your organization. To facilitate with adoption we offer a thoroughly engineered implementation plan, online training, and a dedicated customer success manager.

Our software is designed to work with your systems in a variety of ways. We offer a robust import/export suite of tools to make getting your data into our system seamless no matter what system it's coming from or going to.

Decision Lens software is relied on by government financial managers, planners, comptrollers and decision makers to prioritize, plan, and fund billions of dollars annually. We currently have customers in the Army, Navy, Air Force, intelligence community, fourth estate, federal civilian agencies, departments of transportation, and state and local government agencies.

No. While we take feedback from users to continue to evolve the software to meeting the changing needs of our customers we incorporate the broadest requirements into our development cycle. We maintain a detailed roadmap of capabilities and features we are developing.

We release new versions of the software regularly. These updates induce the introduction of new features, bug fixes, and more.

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Performance-Based Planning and Programming Isn't Static

Performance-Based Planning and Programming Isn’t Static

Every Decision Comes with Constraints to Navigate and Outcomes to Measure