Performance Based Planning and Programming

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.

2022 Performance Measures and Targets

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).

Safety

State Targets for 2023:

  • 270 or less – Number of Fatalities
  • 0.85 or less – Fatality rate (per 100 million vehicle miles traveled)
  • 1,300 or less – Number of serious injuries
  • 4.3 or less – Serious injury rate (per 100 million vehicle miles traveled)
  • 280 or less – Number of non-motorized fatalities and non-motorized serious injuries

Bridges & Pavement

Pavement Condition

  • Federal Regulations – Subpart C of Chapter 23 CFR Part 490
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  • CTDOT 2023 Targets
    • Percentage of pavements on the Interstate System in Good condition: Current Condition – 76.6%, Target – 70.0%
    • Percentage of pavements on the Interstate System in Poor condition: Current Condition – 0.2%, Target – 1.3%
    • Percentage of pavements on the non-Interstate NHS in Good condition: Current Condition – 39.6%, Target – 35.0%
    • Percentage of pavements on the non-Interstate NHS in Poor condition: Current Condition – 2.1%, Target – 3.5%

Bridge Condition

  • Federal Regulations – Subpart D of Chapter 23 CFR Part 490
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  • CTDOT 2023 Targets
    • Percentage NHS bridges classified as in Good condition: Current Condition – 13.6%, Target – 14.2%
    • Percentage NHS bridges classified as in Poor condition: Current Condition – 7.9%, Target – 6.0%

System Performance

Freight Movement on Interstate System (IS)

  • Federal Regulations – Subpart F of Chapter 23 CFR Part 490
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  • CTDOT 2023 Targets
    • Truck Travel Time Reliability (TTTR) Index = 95th / 50th perc. (The higher the ratio, the worse the reliability): CRCOG Current Condition – 1.42, State Current Condition – 1.56, Target – 2.02

Congestion Reduction

  • Federal Regulations – Subpart H of Chapter 23 CFR Part 490
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  • CTDOT 2023 Targets
    • Annual hours of peak-hour excessive delay per capita: State Current Condition – 11.40, Target – 9.80
    • Percent of non-single occupancy vehicle (SOV) travel: State Current Condition – 19.80%, Target – %20.20

Environmental Sustainability

  • Federal Regulations – Subpart G of Chapter 23 CFR Part 490
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  • CTDOT Initial Targets (2-yr, 4-yr)
  • CTDOT 2023 Targets
    • Regionwide reduction in kg/day for
      • VOC – 87.346
      • NOx – 81.978
      • PM2.5 – 6.290
      • PM10 – 0.000
      • CO – 0.000

Transportation Asset Management (TIM)

Transit Asset Management Measures

  • Components of Measure
    • Percentage of vehicles (by type) that meet or exceed the Useful Life Benchmark (ULB)
    • Percentage of facilities falling below a 3.0 on the Transit Economic Requirement Model (TERM) scale

See table below for targets for each of the six providers in CRCOG's area:

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Transit Safety

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Information

Fatalities

  • Components of Measure
    • Total number of reportable fatalities and rate per total vehicle revenue miles by mode

Injuries

  • Components of Measure
    • Total number of reportable injuries and rate per total vehicle revenue miles by mode

Safety Events

  • Components of Measure
    • Total number of reportable events and rate per total vehicle revenue miles by mode

System Reliability

  • Components of Measure
    • Mean distance between major mechanical failures by mode.

Transit Provider PTASP Targets

2023 Transit Safety Measures Summary Table