Transportation Performance Measures

Ronald D. UttPresentation to the November 2015

ADC Meeting, Austin, TX

Performance Based Government Programs

• Measure Outputs, Not Inputs• Increasingly Common in Education and

Transportation Programs• Many States Have Adopted Such Programs• Focus on Virginia

Why Virginia ?

• State enacted Two Sweeping Sets of Legislation Since 2012

• ADC Members Have Contributed to the Legislation

• I live there.

HB 599 (2012, Del. Jim Lemunyon)

• Projects to be Judged Exclusively by Congestion Mitigation

• Applies only to Northern Virginia

• NVTA proposes projects, VDOT Ranks by Estimate of Congestion Mitigation Impact

HB 599 Congestion Mitigation Measures

• Congestion Duration• Person Hours of Delay• Person Hours of Congested Travel in Automobiles• Person Hours of Congested Travel in Transit Vehicles• Transit Crowding• Accessibility to Jobs• Emergency Mobility

Congestion Measure Weights

Congestion Duration 27.9%Person Hours of Delay 20.3%Person Hours of Congested Travel in Automobiles

15.4%

Person Hours of Congested Travel in Transit Vehicles

11.8%

Transit Crowding 11.5%Accessibility to Jobs 9.5%Emergency Mobility 3.6%

Results of VDOT Review

• Thirty-Seven Projects Submitted by NVTA• Transit Projects Were Not Included• Only Four Projects Scored Above 20 (out of

100)• Projects Were Obviously not Focused on

Congestion

HB 2 (enacted 2014)

• Applies to Entire State• Congestion One of Six Factors• Congestion Must Predominate in Major

Urbanized Regions• Factor Weights Vary by Region

HB 2 Factors

• Safety Measures• Congestion Mitigation Measures• Accessibility Measures• Environmental Quality Measures• Economic Development Measures• Land Use Coordination Measures

Factor Weights by Region

Factor Category A Category B Category C Category DCongestion 45% 15% 15% 10%Econ. Dev. 5 20 25 35Access 15 25 25 15Safety 5 20 25 30Environ. 10 10 10 10Land Use 20 10 - -

Sub Factors and Weights: Accessibility

• Access to Jobs (60%)• Access to Jobs for Disadvantaged (20%)• Access to Multi-Modal Choices (20%)

Sub Factors and Weights: Environment

• Air Quality and Energy (50%)

• Impact on Natural and Cultural Resources (50%)

Sub Factors and Weights: Econ. Dev.

• Project Support for Economic Development (60%)

• Intermodal Access and Efficiency (20%)• Travel Time Reliability (20%)

Process: How it Works

• Applies to Projects Proposed for Next Six Years• Includes Transit• MPOs and Others Submit Projects to VDOT• VDOT Scores and Measures Benefits Per Dollar• VDOT Submits to Commonwealth

Transportation Board to Select and Approve for Funding.