Conditions and Performance Report

Conditions and Performance Report
Introduction

Conditions and Performance Chapter Listing

Conditions and Performance Home Page

Report Purpose

Report Changes

Highlights of the Report

Report Organization

Highway Data Sources

Bridge Data Sources

Transit Data Sources

Investment Requirement Analytical Procedures

Plans for Future Reports

Report Organization

In this edition, the four major sections contained in previous versions of the report have been divided into ten smaller chapters, each of which focuses on a narrower topic area. Most chapters begin with a combined summary of highway and transit issues, followed by separate sections discussing highways and transit in more detail. This structure is intended to accommodate report users who may only be interested in one of the two modes. Information that relates to only one of the two modes represented in this report is included in appendices.

The Executive Summary contains one page of highlights each on the highway and transit components in each chapter;

Chapter 1 discusses issues relating to personal mobility;

Chapter 2 describes recent trends in highway and transit demand and system characteristics;

Chapter 3 depicts current physical conditions of highways, bridges, and transit systems;

Chapter 4 describes the current operational performance of highways and transit systems;

Chapter 5 discusses issues relating to the safety performance of highways and transit systems;

Chapter 6 outlines highway and transit revenues sources and expenditure patterns for all units of government;

Chapter 7 projects future highway, bridge and transit capital investment requirements under certain defined scenarios;

Chapter 8 compares current levels of capital investment for highways, bridges and transit with projected future investment requirements;

Chapter 9 describes the impacts that past investment has had on the conditions and operational performance of highways, bridges and transit systems and predicts the impacts that different levels of future investment would have; and

Chapter 10 discusses how the projections of future highway and transit investment requirements would be affected by changing the assumptions about travel growth and other key variables.

Chapter 11 identifies limitations in the current analysis, and raises issues for future discussion.

Appendix A reports the results of the Interstate System Needs Study required by Section 1107(c) of TEA-21;

Appendix B provides information about the National Highway System that corresponds to the information provided in Chapters 2-10 for all highways and bridges;

Appendix C provides information on the condition of NHS intermodal freight connectors;

Appendix D discusses issues relating to asset management and investment strategies;

Appendix E provides information on the conditions and performance of Federal Lands Highways;

Appendix F discusses how Federal highway safety programs work to address the issues raised in Chapter 5;

Appendix G describes changes in the highway investment requirement methodology;

Appendix H discusses the costs and benefits of transit; and

Appendix I includes supplementary technical information on the transit investment requirement methodology.

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