Overview
Regional transportation planning is being integrated with performance measures! At CRCOG, we are creating targets for federally established performance measures to guide the Capitol Region’s future transportation plans.
This page briefly summarizes the performances measures that FHWA and FTA require to guide future transportation planning. Per federal requirements, State DOT’s must establish initial statewide targets for each measure. The RPO – often designated as a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in a large urbanized region then has 180 days to either support the state DOT’s target, or independently establish its own targets for any of the measures within the MPO. These performance measures must be regularly monitored and reported with new targets typically set in 2 or 4 year time frames.
Legislation and Requirements
MAP-21 and the FAST Act legislation required USDOT to establish transportation performance measures, and required States and Regions to set performance targets for those measures. There are five groupings of performance measures: three groupings mandated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and two by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The three FHWA measure groupings are Safety, Bridges & Pavement, and System Performance. The two FTA measure groupings are Transportation Asset Management (TAM) and Transit Safety. They are required of both state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations, which will work together towards meeting these targets. If state DOT’s and MPO’s do not comply, federal funding for state and local transportation projects may be affected. The regulatory basis of the performance measures can be found in Chapter 23 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 490 (23 CFR Part 490).