USE OF HIGHWAY PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEM IN RECLASSIFYING RURAL HIGHWAYS IN SUPPORT OF NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM IN KANSAS

Kansas ranks fourth nationally in total miles of streets and highways. Maintaining such a large system is a burden to all levels of government. There are similarities between Kansas and surrounding states, particularly Iowa and Nebraska. This suggests that the conventional functional classification was done properly. It is evident that national averages do not provide appropriate guidelines for attaining a classification that produces an optimal decision making basis for states such as Kansas. The Highway Performance Monitoring System model proved to be a useful tool for demonstrating the benefits of using different criteria to classify Kansas' highways. An estimate of total needs to attain an assumed level of service was not particularly useful. However, a comparison of the higher user costs associated with the existing functional classification--which attempts to being all arterials, no matter how minor, up to arterial standards--to the costs associated with the State Transportation Planning classification system, proved convincing to policy makers.

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• Authors:
  • Landman, E D
• Publication Date: 1992

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 1-8
• Monograph Title: Transportation planning, programming, land use, and applications of geographic information systems
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1364
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Highways; Rural highways; Transportation planning; Transportation policy
• Identifier Terms: National Highway System
• Uncontrolled Terms: Highway classification; Highway performance monitoring system; Highway user costs
• Geographic Terms: Kansas
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00626915
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309054036
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 22 1993 12:00AM