Lessons Learned for Transportation Agencies Preparing for MAP-21 Performance Management Requirements Related to Mobility and Reliability

The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) was signed into law by President Obama on July 6, 2012. MAP-21 establishes performance-based planning and programming to improve transportation decision-making and increase the accountability and transparency of the Federal highway programs. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) will be released in the first quarter of 2014 related to measures and calculation procedures with the effective date for all measurement areas of spring 2015. Because the NPRM will be out soon, it is timely for transportation agencies to begin to think about the benefits of having a set of performance measures for purposes other than satisfying MAP-21 requirements. Now is a great opportunity for transportation agencies to understand how performance management can improve their agency operations. The authors have experience with mobility analyses for a number of national, state, and local sponsors, which has provided them the opportunity to observe some common results as they relate to MAP-21’s upcoming requirements. This paper has the objective of providing guidance and lessons learned related to calculating congestion-related performance measures and related considerations. This paper is intended to allay some fears and identify some opportunities brought by MAP-21 with a focus on those aspects of MAP-21 anticipated to have the closest association to mobility and reliability (e.g., system performance, congestion mitigation/air quality, freight). Researchers document results related to principles for selecting performance measures, typical performance measures, delay thresholds, target setting, and measure calculation techniques.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABC30 Performance Measurement.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Eisele, William L
  • Lomax, Timothy
  • Schrank, David L
  • Turner, Shawn M
  • 0000-0002-5717-7742
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality; Decision making; Mobility; Performance measurement; Traffic congestion; Transportation departments; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01515128
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2075
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 21 2014 3:16PM