Project 14-1M:

This effort involves development of a congestion monitoring program using the Coalition's vehicle probe data.

State and local transportation agencies have been moving rapidly into performance measurements as a core business practice for several reasons. First, reporting on current conditions and trends is a powerful tool for showing the public that agencies understand the scope of the problem. Second, as agencies increasingly adopt a customer-oriented focus similar to private firms, performance measurement is the mechanism for assessing current practice and identifying areas where improvements need to be made. Third, agencies are being asked by elected officials and the public to demonstrate the benefits of transportation investments. Fourth, the entry of private vendors of travel time data into the market provides great potential for supporting performance measurement. These data provide improved coverage on major highways where detectorization is fiscally infeasible.

Project 13-1M: The project has two major concurrent tasks. First is a programmatic assessment of the Coalition’s performance. This will focus on how the activities and projects of the Coalition, via its Program Track Committees, have produced results that help achieve the Coalition’s strategic objectives. The assessment will focus on more recent programs and activities. It will include a sample of projects, including multi-jurisdiction ones and some carried out by individual agencies but with the expectation that project lessons would be implemented in other jurisdictions. Results will include identification of performance measures used, outputs, outcomes, and anecdotal evidence of results from all these initiatives. These results will constitute the programmatic assessment.

The second task focuses on the impacts of Coalition collaboration on the performance of the transportation system in the corridor. The goal is to initiate discussion on how the Coalition is contributing to mobility, safety and security, and economic vitality in the corridor. The focus will be on longer distance multimodal travel of people and goods. Key indicators of system performance will be identified, in order to answer such questions as these:
• “What do we want to know about system performance in the corridor?”
• “What do we want to measure about system performance?”
• “What does the public (our customers) want to know about system performance?”

This task will identify ways in which the Integrated Corridor Analysis Tool can be applied to quantifying and modeling the Coalition’s impact on transportation system performance. The task will yield a carefully selected list of key system performance indicators and a game plan for assembling the necessary data and conducting analyses which will ultimately show how the Coalition’s work impacts transportation system performance.

Procurement Agency: Maryland SHA
Project Contact:George Schoener, I-95 Corridor Coalition

Project 14-1M:

1. Develop guidance for and demonstrate how states can create a congestion monitoring program using a variety of data sources, with an emphasis on vehicle probe data
2. Create a corridor-wide monitoring program for major bottlenecks using the Inrix vehicle probe data

Project 13-1M:

• Measure the results of the Coalition’s programmatic performance (activities, programs, and projects) in terms of measures used, outputs, outcomes, and anecdotes.
• Identify goals, measures, and implementation requirements for assessing the impacts of the Coalition on transportation system performance, with emphasis on longer distance movements of people and goods.
• Identify interface opportunities with the Integrated Corridor Analysis Tool.

Project 12-1P:
The objective was to carry out technical work and provide staff support for meetings on the subject of performance measurement.

View Scope of Work for project 14-1M

Project 12-1P:
Staff provided support services for the Coalition’s annual meeting, for those activities related to performance measurement. Staff drafted and revised scopes of work and budgets for proposed additional project work in years 13 and 14 in the area of performance measurement.

Deliverables:
Year 13 Refined Project Description: Developing a Performance Measures Plan
Proposed Project Idea: Pilot Project to Apply Performance Measures to the Operation of the Transportation System in the Corridor.

Project 12-1P:
The Coalition framed and focused its action agenda in the area of performance measurement for years 13 and 14.

Project 12-1P:
Original Project Budget: $6,000
Final Project Expenditures: $5,931