Preparing for System Performance Measures and Target-Setting Requirements of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act: Lessons Learned in Virginia

The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) established performance-based planning and programming requirements to improve transportation decision making and increase the accountability and transparency of federal highway programs. At the time of the writing of this paper, the MAP-21 performance requirements for system performance, congestion mitigation and air quality, and freight had not yet been released, but many transportation agencies had begun efforts to understand and implement performance management activities in anticipation of the MAP-21 system performance requirements. The Virginia Department of Transportation (DOT) has long been a leader in transportation performance activities. Continuing this trend, the Virginia DOT had great interest in evaluating system performance (beginning with the Interstate system) to demonstrate how systemwide measures could be computed and how targets could be set. The Virginia DOT contracted with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute to develop these measures for the Virginia Interstate system as a pilot test. This paper describes the successfully developed and demonstrated methodology for computing a number of mobility, reliability, and congestion magnitude performance measures along with targets for selected measures. Researchers divided the Virginia Interstate roadways into 199 reporting segments. Performance statistics were computed for each segment and aggregated up to the urban area, Virginia DOT district, and statewide level. Major lessons learned from this effort are documented in this paper and should serve to provide additional guidance to other agencies beginning this type of performance measurement effort.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2529-01
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• Authors:
  • Eisele, William L
  • Schrank, David L
  • Fontaine, Michael D
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1–9
• Monograph Title: Managing Performance and Assets; Freight Data and Visualization
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2529
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Interstate highways; Methodology; Performance measurement; Program management
• Identifier Terms: Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21); Virginia Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01555276
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309369602
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-2321
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 26 2015 10:05AM