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Transportation agencies at all levels are increasingly relying on performance measures to inform decisions on investment and transportation system management. The California Transportation Commission (CTC) recently adopted a set of performance measures that were based mainly on the needs of urban areas in the state. The California Rural Counties Task Force were concerned that these performance measures did not meet their specific needs. The Task Force therefore commissioned a study to develop performance measures applicable specifically to rural areas in the state. This paper describes the development of these performance measures, which were subsequently adopted by the CTC. The study consisted of reviewing existing performance measurement practices in rural counties, assessing available planning resources for data collection and analysis to produce performance measures, establishing criteria for assessing potential performance measures, recommending performance measures, and examining potential future performance measures. The recommended performance measures were adopted in toto by the CTC. What distinguishes this study from most previous efforts in this area is the development of a systematic framework for the selection of performance measures.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABC30 Standing Committee on Performance Management.

01618707

17-06203

English

18p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Counties; Data collection; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Performance measurement; Rural areas

California Transportation Commission; State Transportation Improvement Program

California

Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06203

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 12:31PM