CMAQ Performance Measures

• CMAQ Performance Measures: 23 U.S.C. § 150 (c) (5)
• CMAQ Performance Plan 23 U.S.C. § 149(l)
• Federal Register: 23 C.F.R. Part 490
  • Subpart A: Reporting Requirements
  • Subpart G: CMAQ Traffic Congestion
  • Subpart H: CMAQ On-Road Mobile Source Emissions
• EPA Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes – 40 CFR 81

• TPM CMAQ Applicability Tables
• CMAQ Public Access System
• Emissions Calculator Toolkit
• US EPA Green Book
• National Performance Management Research Data Set (registration required)
• American Community Survey

CMAQ Measure Publications

• Metropolitan Planning Organization Target Setting and Reporting
• Computation Guidance for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) Program Total Emissions Reduction Measure
• Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program: A Guidebook for Preparing Performance Plans for Metropolitan Planning Organizations
• TPM Frequently Asked Questions
• CMAQ Project Tracking System User's Guide
• FHWA Computation Procedure for Travel Time Based and Percent Non-Single Occupancy Vehicle (non-SOV) Travel Performance Measures
• National Performance Measures for Congestion, Reliability, and Freight, and CMAQ Traffic Congestion

Definitions

• Applicable Definitions from 23 CFR Part 490
  • 490.101 General Definitions
  • 490.705 Subpart G Definitions
  • 490.805 Subpart H Definitions
• Transportation Planning and Programming Definitions from § 450.104

General TPM Resources from FHWA

• Operations Performance Management Site (for PHED measure)
• FHWA Office of Transportation Performance Management
  • TPM Resources
  • TPM Toolbox and Capability Maturity Model
• Final Rule Presentations, Fact Sheets, and Related Materials

• CMAQ 101: Introduction to the CMAQ Program (video, 22:26) – Introduction and overview of the CMAQ Program

  National Highway Institute (NHI) On-Road Mobile Source Emissions Reduction Measure (web-based training, 45-1hr) – Covers TPM in general, CMAQ term definitions, explanation of emissions measure, applicability, data sources, formula, targets, reporting, due dates, and MPO CMAQ Performance Plan

  TPM Essentials Video Series

  • CMAQ Performance Measures (video, 8 minutes) – Examine all 3 CMAQ performance measures, purpose, reasoning, pollutants/precursors, and public access system
  • TPM Timeline (video, ) Explains reporting timelines, data availability.
  • Emissions Measure Applicability (video, 9 minutes) – Focus on applicability determinations for DOTs and MPOs

  TPM Implementation workshop materials

  • PM3 CMAQ Presentation (pdf) – Outlines the rule, applicability, defines common terms, explains data sources and use of public access system, explains equations and timelines.

  TPM "Office Hours" website
  Demonstration of Performance Management Form (PMF) for Baseline Reporting (video, 13 minutes) – Walks through steps for filling out baseline PMF.
  Overview of Emissions Measures (on-demand webinar, 21 minutes)

  CMAQ Annual Reporting webinars – Webinars on how to use the complete annual reporting

• FHWA Office of TPM Index of External Links
• TRB Performance Measurement (ABC30) Resource Center
• AASHTO TPM Portal
• AASHTO Communicating Performance Site