Transportation Performance Management

February 2018

• Performance Dashboards and Scorecards
• Safety, Mobility, and Congestion
• Asset Management
• Research, Technical Reports, and Guides
• Planning
• Performance Measures and Reports
• Events, Conferences, Workshops, and Guides

Performance Dashboards and Scorecards

• San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Interactive Dashboard for Performance Metrics
  Interactive performance dashboards track the agency's progress in meeting the goals and objectives outlined in the SFMTA's 2013-2018 Strategic Plan.
• Tampa, Florida's Transportation Performance Charts
  Charts provide an at-a-glance view of how the city is doing on its goals for sidewalk maintenance, pothole patching, and more.
• San Diego Performance Dashboard
  PerformSD tracks the city's key performance indicators and other information. Data about how the city performs is visualized through charts, graphs, and other infographics to tell a story.
• Michigan DOT Performance Summary
  The monthly MiScorecard summary reports on progress made toward transportation targets in a number of categories including safety, condition, accountability, and mobility.
• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Build a Safety Data Dashboard Tool
  The Roadway Safety Data Dashboard provides roadway fatality data in an easy-to-use interface.
• Connecticut DOT Five-Year Capital Plan Dashboard
  The plan represents the department's proposed program of highway and bridge, public transportation, and facility capital projects. The dashboard shows funding by source and mode for programmed and overprogrammed projects.

Safety, Mobility, and Congestion

• American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) 2017 Top Truck Bottleneck List
  The top 100 congestion profiles are listed in rank-order in a table format.
• FHWA Safety Performance Management (Safety PM) Resources
  The site provides resources supporting implementation of five performance measures.
• Stateline: Troopers Use ‘Big Data' to Predict Crash Sites
  This Pew Charitable Trusts article looks at the tangible benefits predictive crash analytics can provide.
• FHWA Traffic Incident Management Knowledgebase
  Good practices, lessons learned, after-action reports, tools, and other products are shared in a searchable database, with a goal of stronger local, regional, tribal, and state traffic incident management committees and programs.
• Autonomous Vehicles Meet Human Drivers: Traffic Safety Issues for States
  The Governors Highway Safety Association has released a report on the issues associated with educating the public about semi-autonomous vehicles and managing traffic safety.
• Federal Transit Administration (FTA) National Public Transportation Safety Plan
  The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) required a National Public Transportation Safety Plan to improve safety on public transportation systems that receive Federal transit funds. The plan includes safety performance measures for all modes of public transportation.
• FHWA Office of Safety's Safety Compass Newsletter
  This edition of the newsletter features an article on data visualization and as well as case studies of state safety practices.
• FHWA Office of Planning, Environment, & Realty: MPO Guidebook for Using Safety as a Project Prioritization Factor
  The guidebook includes interviews with representatives of nine metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) identified as having a well-defined project prioritization process that explicitly considers safety.
• Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center Interactive Report: The Future of Transportation
  The report covers all talks from Volpe's leadership speaker series on this topic, addressing the themes of safety, opportunity, and innovation.

Asset Management

• FTA - Updated Transit Asset Management Guide
  This guide provides a transit-specific asset management framework for managing assets individually and as a portfolio.

Research, Technical Reports, and Guides

• Governors' Institute on Community Design Guide: The Why and How of Measuring Access to Opportunity
  This guidebook helps transportation agencies integrate measures of “access to opportunity” into their planning and investment decisions.

Planning

• Florida Department of Transportation: Planning for Travel Time Reliability Guide
  The guide provides tools to better understand how travel time reliability is incorporated into the agency's planning processes; where there are opportunities for collaboration and tools; and how to fund related improvements.

Performance Measures and Reports

• Transportation for America: How Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) Across the United States Use Performance Measures
  The survey looked at the use of performance measures among 104 MPOs in 42 states.
• Texas Department of Transportation Performance Results Summary
  Tables provide insight on the agency's progress on its performance targets as established by the state Legislature.

Events, Conferences, Workshops, and Webinars

• Steps to Effective Target Setting (NHI 138012)
  This two-day course explains the elements of target setting and how to establish reasonable, attainable performance targets.
• Performance-based Planning and Programming (NHI 138007)
  This two-day course familiarizes transportation agencies with the key elements of a performance-based planning and programming (PBPP) framework; how PBPP supports TPM; and how both PBPP and TPM relate to the requirements for transportation planning and transportation system performance.
• MAP-21 Transportation Performance Management Overview (Including FAST Act Updates) (NHI 138004)
  This one-day course provides a basic overview of TPM provisions of MAP-21 and the FAST Act; describes the responsibilities that federal, state, regional and local agencies have in delivering these requirements; highlights data's important in meeting performance management provisions; and shares noteworthy practices.
• Introduction to Financial Planning for Transportation Asset Management (NHI 136002A)
  This one-hour web-based course explores common terms, background information and the context of financial plans for transportation asset management.