Transportation
Performance Management

Performance Measures

• Not later than 18 months after date of enactment USDOT, in consultation with State DOTs, MPOs, and other stakeholders will promulgate a rulemaking that establishes measures.
• Provide not less than 90 days to comment on regulation.
• Take into consideration any comments.
• Limit performance measures to those described under 23USC150(c).
• For purposes of carrying out National Highway Performance Program USDOT will establish Measures for States to use to assess:
  • Condition of Pavements
    • Interstate System
    • National Highway System (excluding the Interstate)
  • Condition of Bridges
    • National Highway System
  • Performance of:
    • Interstate System
    • National Highway System (excluding the Interstate)
• USDOT will establish the data elements that are necessary to collect and maintain standardized data to carry out a performance-based approach

Performance Targets

• States must coordinate, to the maximum extent practical with relevant MPOs in selecting a target to ensure for consistency
• MPOs must coordinate, to the maximum extent practical, with the relevant State/s in selecting a target to ensure consistency
• Coordination required with public transportation providers.
• States and MPOs must integrate other performance plans into the performance-based process

Performance Plans

• Asset Management Plan
  • Risk-based asset management plan
  • States encouraged to include all infrastructure assets within the right-of-way
  • Plan Contents
    • pavement and bridge inventory and conditions on the NHS,
    • objectives and measures,
    • performance gap identification,
    • lifecycle cost and risk management analysis,
    • a financial plan, and
    • investment strategies
  • USDOT, in consultation with State DOTs, will establish the process to develop the plan through a rulemaking no later than 18 months after 10/1/2012
  • States must have a plan developed consistent with the process by the 2nd fiscal year, otherwise federal share for NHPP will be reduced to 65%
  • Process certification
    • USDOT 90 days review period to determine certification
    • States have 90 days to cure deficiencies if not certified
    • Recertification required every 4 years
• Management Systems
  • USDOT will establish minimum standards for States to use in developing and operating:
    • Bridge management systems
    • Pavement management systems
  • Minimum standards established through a rulemaking
    • Minimum 90 day comment period
    • USDOT will promulgate a rulemaking not later than 18 months after date of enactment

Target Achievement

• "A State that does not achieve or make significant progress toward achieving the targets... for 2 consecutive reports"
  • Document in 23USC150(e) report actions the State will take to improve their ability to achieve the target

Special Performance Rules

• Interstate Pavement Condition
  • Minimum condition level established by USDOT through rulemaking
  • Condition falls below threshold set by USDOT for 2 consecutive reports then:
    • NHPP funding set aside to address Interstate pavement
    • STP funds transferred to NHPP to address Interstate pavement conditions
    • This obligation requirement stays in effect until the minimum thresholds can be met (checked annually)
• National Highway System Bridge Condition
  • Greater than 10% of total deck area of bridges on the NHS are located on bridges classified as structurally deficient for 3 consecutive years then:
    • NHPP funding set aside to address bridge conditions on the NHS
    • This obligation requirement remains in place until minimum condition requirement is met (checked annually)

Performance Reporting

• State Report on Performance Progress
  • Required initially by October 1, 2016 and every 2 years thereafter
  • Report includes:
    • Condition and performance of NHS
    • Effectiveness of investment strategy for the NHS
    • Progress in achieving all State performance targets
• Metropolitan System Performance Report
  • Required in transportation plan every 4 or 5 years
  • Report includes:
    • Evaluate condition and performance of transportation system
    • Progress achieved in meeting performance targets in comparison with the performance in previous reports
    • Evaluation of how preferred scenario has improved conditions and performance, where applicable
    • Evaluation of how local policies and investments have impacted costs necessary to achieve performance targets , where applicable
• Statewide Transportation Plan
  • No required frequency
  • Optional report on system performance