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Resources and PublicationsField Manual: HPMS Field Manual HPMS Primer: Overview of the HPMS for FHWA: This report provides information to FHWA field offices and States on the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) data. HPMS Archive Item Descriptions (Data item descriptions used with the HPMS universe and sample archive data files) Urbanized Area Codes 1991 - 2001 Use of Census Boundaries for HPMS Data Reporting Highway Functional Classification Guidelines The manual Highway Functional Classification: Concepts, Criteria and Procedures, covers concepts of functional highway classification and functional system characteristics and suggests procedures for functional highway classification in rural, small urban and urbanized areas. Local Area Travel Reporting This report provides survey information on promising and innovative State practices used to estimate local area travel in rural, small urban, and urbanized areas. (Available in HTML and PDF formats) Improving HPMS Data Quality A Continuous Process Improvement Model for the HPMS: This report takes a look at the continuous Process Improvement Model for the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS). Seven Deadly Misconceptions About Information Quality: Larry P. English: Describes misconceptions about information quality that can cause quality initiatives to fail or appear to succeed but fail to achieve desired results. HPMS Field Review Guidelines: FHWA, Sept 2006: Provides information to the FHWA field staff on the appropriate review of State HPMS data trends; also provides advisory information on how to conduct process reviews of several of the more prominent data collection activities covered by the HPMS. Data Quality HPMS Sample Management: This report provides information on the basic structure of the HPMS sample, recommended sample management practices, identifying and addressing sample bias, and major considerations in conducting sample management reviews. HPMS and Air Quality Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled - Statutory Language; EPA, 1999: Provides excerpted statutory language relevant to requirements for VMT data to meet NAAQS and other clean air legislation and goals. Data Sharing and Data Partnerships The report: Data Sharing and Data Partnerships for Highways; NCHRP Synthesis 288, documents arrangements among the States, MPOs, and other regional and local governments to partner in the collection and share in the use of HPMS data. Key elements examined in the study include institutional arrangements, the use of data and data sharing, cost and resource requirements, technical capabilities/barriers, implementation processes, data quality, as well as successes, failures, and difficulties. This document can be ordered from the Transportation Research Board (TRB) at http://www.nationalacademies.org/trb/bookstore. Other Publications Non-Federal Applications of HPMS HPMS: New Technologies and Techniques Updated: Part II - October 2003 |
