
	FY'03 Performance Plan > Attachment B

Federal Highway Administration
Fiscal Year 2003 Performance Plan
August 2002

Attachment B. Comparison of Goals and Objectives in the FY 02 and FY 03 Plans

Strategic Goal	FY02 National Performance Goal	FY03 National Strategic Objective/Outcome	FY03 National Performance Objective
Safety	Reduce the rate and number of highway-related fatalities and injuries.	Reduce the number of highway-related crashes, and the resulting fatalities and injuries associated with a crash. The target is 1.4 per hundred million VMT in FY 2003. The number of highway related injuries, actual and adjusted per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. The target is 107 per hundred million VMT in FY 2003.	Reduce fatalities involving roadway departure (run-off-the-road and head-on) crashes by 10 % by FY 2007. Reduce intersection fatalities by 10% by FY 2007. Reduce pedestrian fatalities by 10% by FY 2007.Support National Strategies with multiple objectives, including an increase in seat belt use.
Mobility and Productivity	Slow the projected growth of congested travel. Increase system reliability.	Enhance the operation and efficiency of the existing highway system and intermodal connectors. The FY 2003 target is to slow the growth of congested travel by 0.2% to 34% from a projected rate of 34.2%.	Mitigate overall impacts of congestion through effective local partnerships. Reduce work zone delay by ensuring that all States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Federal Lands offices are engaged in aggressively anticipating and mitigating congestion caused by highway work zones. Reduce traffic incident delay by ensuring that all States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Federal Lands offices are engaged in aggressively anticipating and mitigating congestion caused by traffic incidents. Work with the States to further deploy Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and sustain improvements to operating practices.
Mobility and Productivity	In FY02, increase overall user satisfaction with the Nation's highway systems to 70 percent. Increase user satisfaction with the operation of the existing system (Included under the Mobility Goal) Reduce the cost of highway freight per mile Reduce the hours of delay per 1000 commercial vehicles processed at NHS border crossings Reduce travel time on key freight corridors Improve the efficiency of highway infrastructure investments by developing and promoting the use of engineering/economic analysis tools for decision making(Included under the Productivity Goal).		Not included in FY03 Plan.
Mobility and Productivity	Improve the condition of the National Highway System, NHS, to increase the percent of vehicle miles traveled on NHS pavements with acceptable ride quality to 92 percent. Improve the condition of NHS and non-NHS bridges taking into account deck area and ADT.	Preserve, improve and expand the Nation's highway transportation system. The FY 2003 target is to increase the percent of vehicle miles traveled on NHS pavements with acceptable ride quality to 92.5%, and the percent of deck area on bridges rated deficient for all Average Daily Travel (ADT) to 27.5% and 29.7% on NHS and non-NHS bridges, respectively.	Work with the States to improve and expand the NHS to increase system efficiency and return on investment.
Environment	On a program-wide basis, replace at least an average of 1.5 acres of wetlands for every 1 acre directly affected by Federal-aid highway projects where impacts are unavoidable	Demonstrate environmental stewardship by protecting and enhancing ecosystems. To increase ecosystem and habitat conservation: Implement a minimum of 30 exemplary ecosystem initiatives in at least 20 States or Federal Lands Divisions by FY 2007; and Replace at least a program-wide average of 1.5 acres of wetlands per acre directly affected by Federal Aid highway projects.	Enhance knowledge of FHWA staff in areas of ecosystem and habitat conservation. Showcase existing exemplary initiatives.
Environment		Improve the environmental quality of transportation decisionmaking. By FY 2007, all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Federal Lands Highway Divisions will use: Integrated approaches to multi-modal planning, the environmental process and project development at a systems level; and/or Context sensitive solutions (CSS) at a project level.	Increase the number of States implementing Integrated Approaches and Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) by providing training and guidance.
Environment	Increase public satisfaction with highway systems and highway projects as a beneficial part of their community by promoting responsive and well-targeted transportation programs		Not included in FY03 Plan.
Environment	Continue to work toward the reduction of on-road mobile source emissions to reach a target of 61.1 million tons. Increase the percentage of nonattainment and maintenance areas meeting their mobile-source emissions budget goals.	Improve the quality of the human and natural environment by reducing transportation-related pollution. Increase the percent of nonattainment and maintenance areas meeting the on-road mobile source emissions budget goals for ozone, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter to 98.0, 96.0, and 86.0 percent, respectively. Reduce on-road mobile source emissions to 61.8 million tons.	Achieve reductions in on-road mobile source emissions.
National Security	Improve access between key military installations and the air or seaport point of embarkation to support DOD deployment requirements.	Reduce the vulnerability of critical U.S. transportation infrastructure and improve operational response capabilities.	Identify critical highway infrastructure, evaluate its risk and vulnerability, and develop measures to reduce vulnerability; Ensure preparedness for response to, and recovery from, attacks on highway infrastructure; Facilitate military deployment from forts to ports; and Initiate research, technology development and deployment activities in support of a more secure highway system.
Organizational Excellence	Improve delivery of the Federal-aid and Federal Lands Highway Programs	Improve our ability to oversee transportation projects and efficiently manage Federal-aid Highway funds.	Provide stewardship of funds and coordinate efforts to maintain good accountability for expenditures.
Organizational Excellence		Streamline the environmental review and permitting processes for projects. To improve the timeliness of the both the Federal Aid and FLHP environmental process: Establish time frames and meet the schedules for 90% of projects with an EA or EIS by FY 2007; Decrease the median time it takes to complete an EIS from 54 months to 36 months by FY 2007; and Decrease the median time to complete an EA from approximately 18 months to 12 months by FY 2007.	Establish time frames for all current EIS and EA projects. Continue to reduce the environmental processing time for EIS and EA projects.
Organizational Excellence	Increase employee job satisfaction Increase job-related training and professional development opportunities available to employees Increase the timeliness of the recruitment and selection process	Increase employee satisfaction and effectiveness. The FY 2003 target is 80 percent of all Agency employees that are satisfied in their jobs.	Develop and implement the FHWA Human Capital Plan, and the restructuring assessment recommendations for professional development and training.
Organizational Excellence	Add value in the delivery of our products and services	Increase partner and customer satisfaction. Improvement in overall customer satisfaction, based on aggregated results of foundation surveys. Increased effectiveness of FHWA's research, technology, and innovation development, including increased involvement of external stakeholders.	Establish, implement, and monitor a system of customer surveys, and Agency response to the feedback, to improve customer service satisfaction. Lead and coordinate efforts to effectively perform the role of Innovator for a Better Future, and increase the effectiveness of all FHWA units, as well as our partners and stakeholders, in determining research priorities and deploying technologies and innovation.

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