Performance Measures Addressing safety, pavement, bridges, reliability, freight, air quality and transit
Incorporating Performance Measures into the Duluth-Superior Area TIPs
Federal performance-based planning requirements direct MPOs to establish performance measures for safety, pavement, bridge, reliability, freight, CMAQ, and transit asset management and safety.
The intent of these provisions is to demonstrate how federally-funded investments (i.e., the projects in the TIP) are helping to meet national, state and local transportation performance targets.
The MIC will report these targets as they are adopted by the Policy Board, and on the progress made in meeting them, in the annually-produced Duluth- and Superior-Area Transportation Improvement Program documents.
For the Minnesota portion of the MIC area, the MIC Board passed Resolution #18-14, adopting MnDOT’s performance measures for System Performance (PM3) for 2018, as follows:
System Performance (PM3):
Measure
2-Year Target
4-Year Target
Percent of Reliable Person Miles on the Interstate
80%
80%
Percent of Reliable Person Miles Reliable on the Non-Interstate NHS
N/A
75%
Truck Travel Time Reliability Index
1.5
1.5
*NHS = National Highway System
PM 2 - Infrastructure Condition (MN)
For the Minnesota portion of the MIC area, the MIC Board passed Resolution #18-13, adopting MnDOT’s performance measures for Infrastructure Condition (PM2) for 2018, as follows:
Measure
2-Year Target
4-Year Target
Percent of NHS* Bridges in Good Condition
50%
50%
Percent of NHS Bridges in Poor Condition
4%
4%
Percent of Interstate Pavement in Good Condition
N/A
55%
Percent of Interstate Pavement in Poor Condition
N/A
2%
Percent of Non-Interstate NHS Pavement in Good Condition
50%
50%
Percent of Non-Interstate NHS Pavement in Poor Condition
4%
4%
*NHS = National Highway System
PM1 - Safety (WI)
For the Wisconsin portion of the MIC area, the MIC Board passed Resolution #18-05, adopting the WisDOT Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Performance Measure Targets for 2018, as follows:
# of Traffic fatalities = 556.1 Rate of Fatalities = 0.917/100MVMT # of Serious injuries = 3,023.9 Rate of Serious Injuries = 4.997/100MVMT # of Non-motorized fatalities and serious injuries = 343.3
PM1 - Safety (MN)
For the Minnesota portion of the MIC area, the MIC Board passed Resolution #18-02, adopting the MnDOT Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Performance Measure Targets for 2018, as follows:
# of Traffic Fatalities = 375 Rate of Traffic Fatalities = 0.62 per 100 million VMT # of Serious Injuries = 1935 Rate of Serious Injuries = 3.19 per 100 million VMT # of Non-motorized Fatalities & Serious Injuries = 348
Regulatory Basis
23 CFR 450.326(d): The TIP shall include, to the maximum extent practicable, a description of the anticipated effect of the TIP toward achieving the performance targets identified in the metropolitan transportation plan, linking investment priorities to those performance targets.
Explanation
MAP-21, signed into law in 2012, established performance-based planning and identified five federal performance measures (PMs) addressing safety, pavement, bridge, reliability, freight, CMAQ, and transit asset management and safety. The requirements continued through the FAST Act, signed into law in 2015. These provisions are collectively transforming the federal surface transportation program to be focused on the achievement of performance outcomes.
The MIC has the option to adopt performance measure targets adopted by the state Departments of Transportation (MnDOT/WisDOT) or to develop and adopt their own quantifiable 4-year targets. The MIC has chosen to adopt MnDOT and WisDOT targets.
The first performance measure, for Safety Targets, must be adopted by February 27, 2018 and amended into the TIP(s) by May 27th, 2018. The deadline for adopting performance measures for Infrastructure Condition (PM2) and System Performance (PM3) is November 16, 2018.
Resolution Incorporating Performance Measure Text into Duluth-Area TIP
MIC-Reso-18-09-Amdmt-5-to-18-21-MN-TIP.pdf