HPMS Field Manual

Table of Contents

Chapters

1. Introduction
   • Background
   • Contents of the HPMS Field Manual
   • Uses of HPMS Data
   • Scope of the HPMS
   • Overview of HPMS Reporting Requirement
2. Definitions
3. Summary Data Requirement
   • Introduction
   • Travel and Demographic Data
   • Pavement Data
   • Travel Data by Vehicle Type
   • Temporal Distribution of Travel Activity by Vehicle
   • U.S. Territory Information
4. Universe and Sample Data Requirements
   • Universe Data
   • Standard Sample Data
   • Donut Area Sample Data
   • Coding Nonuniform Roadway
   • Structure Treatment
   • General Reporting Requirement
   • Data Item Summary
   • General Coding Instructions
   • Data Coding Instructions
5. Linear Referencing System Requirement
   • General LRS Rules
   • Summary of LRS Data Requirements
   • Node Data File Coding Instructions
   • Data Item Details
   • Inventory Route Link Data File Coding Instructions
   • Data Item Details
6. Updating HPMS Data
   • Introduction
   • General
   • Updating Universe and Sample Data
   • Updating Summary Data
   • Updating LRS Data
7. Sample Selection and Maintenance
   • Introduction
   • Sample Panel Considerations
   • Sample Stratification and Precision Levels
   • Preparation for Sample Selection
   • Calculation of Expansion Factors
   • Sampling Rural and Small Urban Areas
   • Sampling Individual Urbanized
   • Sample Maintenance

Appendices

1. Table of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Codes for States
2. Urbanized Area Codes
3. Volume Groups and Precision Levels
4. Sample Size Estimation Procedures
5. Measuring Pavement Roughness
   • Introduction
   • HPMS Roughness Measurement Procedure
   • Additional Recommendations for Collection of Roughness Data
   • Coordination with Other Activities
   • AASHTO PP 37-04, Standard Practice for Determining Roughness of Pavements
6. Traffic Monitoring Procedures for the HPMS
   • Introduction
   • General
   • Volume Group Assignments
   • Traffic Monitoring Guide
   • Application of Traffic Count Procedures to HPMS
7. Reporting Travel Data in Air Quality Nonattainment and Maintenance Areas
   • Introduction
   • NAAQS Nonattainment and Maintenance Area Codes
   • Donut Area Sampling Procedures
   • General
   • Donut Area Boundary
   • Standard Sample Review
   • Donut Area Sampling Universe
   • Donut Area Universe Stratification
   • Preparing the Donut Area Universe Sampling Frame
   • Precision Level Specification
   • Donut Area Sample Selection Process
   • General
   • Determining Stratum Variability
   • Determining Stratum Sample Size
   • Random Sample Selection Process
   • Judging the Validity of the Sample
   • Computation of Donut Expansion Factors
   • Estimating Total Travel in the Donut Area
   • Maintaining the Sample
8. LRS Data File Template Procedures
   • General Guidelines
   • Specific Options
9. Climate Zone Definitions
10. Description of HPMS Submittal Software
11. Sample Adequacy Assessment Software
12. Metric/English Conversion Procedures
    • Introduction
    • Hard Conversion
    • Soft Conversion
13. Procedures for Estimating Weighted Design Speed
14. Procedures for Estimating Highway Capacity

Tables

• I-1 Sources of Selected HPMS Data
• I-2 HPMS Data Used for Apportionment
• IV-1 Universe Data Summary
• IV-2 Sample Data Summary
• IV-3 Roughness Reporting Requirements
• IV-4 Pavement Condition Rating
• IV-5 Coding Guide for Curves & Grade by Class
• C-1 Standard Sample Volume Groups and Precision Levels (Rural Areas)
• C-2 Standard Sample Volume Groups and Precision Levels (Small Urban Areas)
• C-3 Standard Sample Volume Groups and Precision Levels (For Urbanized Areas <200,000 Population that are NOT in NAAQS Nonattainment Areas)
• C-4 Standard Sample Volume Groups and Precision Levels (For Urbanized Areas $200,000 Population and Smaller Urbanized Areas that ARE in NAAQS Nonattainment Areas)
• C-5 Donut Area Sample Volume Groups and Precision Levels
• L-1 Hard Conversion for Speed (English to Metric)
• L-2 Hard Conversion for Speed (Metric to English)
• L-3 Hard Conversion for Length (English to Metric)
• L-4 Hard Conversion for Length (Metric to English)

Figures

• III-1. HPMS Software Summary Screen
• III-2. HPMS Pavement Type Screen
• IV-1 Two-Way At-Grade Intersections
• IV-2 Freeway Tee Intersection
• IV-3 Lane Width
• IV-4 Median Measurement
• IV-5A Shoulder Type/Width
• IV-5B Shoulder Type/Width
• IV-5C Shoulder Type/Width
• IV-6 Left Turn Bays
• IV-7 Exclusive Right Turn Lane
• IV-8 Count Items
• V-1 Duplicate Milepoint Equation
• V-2 Re-Entering a County; Equation Created
• V-3 Route Stops and Restarts at a Different Location; Milepoint Stays the Same
• V-4 Nonduplicate Milepoint Equation
• V-5 Re-Entering a County; No Duplicate Milepoints
• V-6 Route that Stops and Restarts at Different Locations; Milepoint Increases
• V-7 HPMS Section Near a Duplicate Milepoint Equation
• V-8 HPMS Section Crossing a Duplicate Milepoint Equation
• V-9 HPMS Section Crossing a Nonduplicate Milepoint Equation
• V-10 An HPMS Section that Runs Through Overlapping Routes
• V-11 Nodes and Political Boundaries
• G-1 Houston NAAQS Nonattainment Area
• M-1 Worksheet for Calculating Weighted Design Speed