Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (GAO-09-867SP, September
2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-868. GAO-09-867SP, September 9.
[Internet only]
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/gao-09-867sp/
"Performance based" is not something planners want to hear. They are
press-release-oriented and push ideal-types and utopias, as the GAO notes.