TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 292: Innovative Practices to Reduce Delivery Time for Right-of-Way in Project Development examines the delivery of rights-of-way and property interests for project construction and mitigation activities, and reports on successful strategies employed by agencies to accelerate this process.

"A staff digest of the progress and status of NCHRP Project 20-5, "Synthesis of information related to highway problems," for which the Transportation Research Board is the agency conducting the research."

This report follows an earlier AASHTO report for the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission (the Commission) entitled State DOT Performance Management Programs: Select Examples, published in June 2007. It examined performance-based surface transportation program approaches currently being implemented at some of the state DOTs around the country. Building on that primer, this report describes the basic principles involved in applying performance measurement to the state budgeting and program delivery process, and profiles how 11 states have applied these principles to improve performance and accountability.