The Advancing Metropolitan Planning for Operations: The Building Blocks of a Model Transportation Plan Incorporating Operations – A Desk Reference is a guide to assist transportation professionals to incorporate operations related objectives, performance measures, and strategies into a regional transportation plan. This reference provides an overview of planning for operations, examples of how to develop operations objectives, numerous samples of operations objectives with associated performance measures, and model transportation plans that have incorporated operations related elements into the plan. Transportation operating agencies should also be consulted, in conjunction with this guide, when developing a metropolitan transportation plan.