Transportation Performance Measures (WI)

All Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), including the MIC, are required to establish targets for federal performance measures that address:

  • Safety
  • Infrastructure (bridges and pavement) Condition
  • System (travel time) Reliability
  • Transit Performance and Transit Asset Management

As a bi-state MPO, targets are developed and adopted separately for each state; the targets on this page apply to the Wisconsin section of the MIC planning area.

See the  PM targets adopted for the Minnesota section of the MIC planning area).

Performance measure targets adopted for the Wisconsin section of the MIC planning area.

Federal requirements direct us, as a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), to establish targets for performance measures (PMs) that address safety, condition of bridges and pavement, system (travel time) reliability, transit performance and asset management.

MPOs have the option to either use the performance targets adopted by the state DOT or develop their own, quantifiable targets. The MIC has opted to adopt the targets established by WisDOT for the Wisconsin section of the MIC planning area.

Those PMs and the current targets established for each are shown below. They are reported and discussed in our 25-year long-range Metropolitan Transportation Plan, linked to the investment priorities in our four-year Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPs), and incorporated into our annual planning processes.

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Safety (PM1) Targets for 2026

Adopted: WisDOT’s Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Performance Measure Targets for 2025

In accordance with the USDOT/FHWA strategy to achieve national transportation performance goals, every state DOT and MPO must annually adopt five Safety Performance Measure (PM1) targets. MPOs have the option to either adopt the targets established by the state or develop their own targets.

For 2025, the MIC adopted WisDOT’s statewide Safety Performance Measure targets for the Wisconsin portion of the MIC Planning Area, as follows:

Infrastructure (PM2) Targets for 2022-2025

Adopted: WisDOT’s 2- and 4-Year Performance Measure Targets for Performance Period 2022-2025

4/19/23: For the Wisconsin portion of the MIC area, the MIC Board passed Resolution #23-08, adopting WisDOT’s performance measure targets for Pavement and Bridge Condition on the National Highway System (PM2), as follows:

Infrastructure Performance Measures and 2022-2025 Targets (PM2)

Measure  Baseline 2-Year Target
(2023)		 4- Year Target
(2025)
Percent of NHS* Bridges in Good Condition 51.3% >49.0% >48.0%
Percent of NHS Bridges in Poor Condition 2.6% <3.0% <3.0%
Percent of Interstate Pavement in Good Condition 65.9% >60.0% >60%
Percent of Interstate Pavement in Poor Condition 0.3% <4.0% <4.0%
Percent of Non-Interstate NHS Pavement in Good Condition 36.3% >30.0% >30.0%
Percent of Non-Interstate NHS Pavement in Poor Condition 4.2% <10.0% <10.0%

               *NHS = National Highway System

By adopting these performance measure targets, the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council agrees to plan and program (TIP) projects so that the projects contribute to the accomplishment of WisDOT’s NHS Pavement and Bridge Condition targets for the performance period 2022 through 2025.

System Reliability (PM3) Targets for 2022-2025

Adopted: WisDOT’s 2- and 4-Year Targets for Travel Time Reliability and Freight Travel Time Reliability for Performance Period 2022-2025

4/19/23: For the Wisconsin portion of the MIC area, the MIC Board passed Resolution #23-09, adopting WisDOT’s performance measures for System Performance (PM3), as follows:

System Reliability Performance Measures and 2022-2025 Targets (PM3)

Measure Baseline 2-Year Target 4-Year Target
Percent of Reliable Person Miles on the Interstate 96.4% 92.5% 93.0%
Percent of Reliable Person Miles Reliable on the Non-Interstate NHS 93.9% 91.0% 89.5%
Truck Travel Time Reliability Index 1.20 1.3 1.3

             *NHS = National Highway System

By adopting these performance measure targets, the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council agrees to plan and program (TIP) projects so that the projects contribute to the accomplishment of WisDOT’s System Reliability targets for the performance period 2022 through 2025.

 

Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Targets

Adopted: The DTA’s Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Performance Measure Targets

On July 19, 2018, the FTA published the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Final Rule, which requires certain operators of public transportation systems that receive federal funds, such as state DOT’s and local transit authorities including the Duluth Transit Authority (DTA), to establish targets for safety performance measures identified in the National Public Transportation Safety Plan.

Here are the Duluth Transit Authority’s targets, effective May 2020, and included in its most recent (8/30/23) Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP):

Transit Asset Management (TAM)

Adopted: The DTA’s 4-Year Transit Asset Management (TAM) Targets

In accordance with federal law, each MPO (the MIC) must establish Transit Asset Management targets in conjunction with transit agencies operating within the MPO (the Duluth Transit Authority or DTA).

The MPO and transit provider have the option to either adopt the Transit Asset Management targets adopted by the state or to develop their own targets. The DTA decided to formulate and adopt their own targets, that were approved by the DTA Board of Directors on 8/29/18.

09/19/2018: The MIC Policy Board passed Resolution 18-18, adopting those targets for both the Minnesota and Wisconsin sides of the MPO, as follows:

Asset 4-Year Target
Rolling Stock <10% of active Fixed Route vehicles and <20% of Paratransit vehicles have reached their useful life.
Equipment <35% of equipment (i.e. service vehicles) have reached their useful life.
Parking/Pedestrian Facility <10% of parking/pedestrian facilities have a condition rating below 3 based on FTA’s TERM scale.
Administrative/Maintenance Facility <20% of facility elements within the Administrative & Maintenance Facility have a condition rating below 3.

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