Transcript Comparative Performance Measures Update

SCOPM Overview
Performance Management:
The Game Changer
SCOPT Business Meeting
December 7, 2010
Savannah, GA
Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Performance Measurement Framework
3. SCOPM Task Forces
4. Future Activities
5. Questions and Answers
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Introduction
• History
– Created in February 2008
– Charge: Provide State DOTs the expertise and resources to support
performance based management and to create a results-driven
environment to maximize the performance of both transportation
systems and organizations.
• 11 task forces created:
– 9 technical task forces
– 2 programmatic task forces
– Each lead by a member of the SCOPM
SCOPM Leadership
Chair &
Preservation TF
Kirk Steudle
Michigan DOT
Co-Chair
Paula Hammond
Washington DOT
Connectivity TF
Francis Ziegler
North Dakota
DOT
Safety TF
Nancy
Richardson
Iowa DOT
Congestion &
Operations TF
Steve Simmons
Texas DOT
Planning &
Programming
Process
Deb Miller
Kansas DOT
Freight & Economic
Development TF
Tom Sorel
Minnesota DOT
Comparative
Perf. Measures
Mara Campbell
Missouri DOT
Environment
Matt Garrett
Oregon DOT
Comparative
Perf. Measures
Daniela Bremmer
Washington DOT
Transit TF & Livability TF
are being created
AASHTO Reauthorization Proposal
In 2008, reauthorization
proposal adopted. Included a
national performance
measurement program focused
on critical national
transportation goals.
Focus
attention on
key national
goals
Build on the
PM work
already in State
DOTs
Make the
case for a
larger Federal
program
Drive better
performance
through
comparative
PM program
More
transparency &
accountability
for the federal
program
National Performance Measurement
Program
Key elements of
the program
include:
National Goals
by Congress &
Secretary of
Transportation
and NOT include:
Performance
measures or
targets
established in
legislation
Tying PMs
and/or targets
to funding
Disincentives
that penalizes
states
PMs
established
through a
collaborative
process
For each state
– build on the
work already
done on PMs
Performance
targets set in
cooperation
w/partners &
stakeholders
Consistent
monitoring &
reporting of
actual results
National Goals
Preservation and Renewal:
Preserving highway, transit, and
rail systems so they last for
generations to come
Safety: Reducing
traffic fatalities,
serious injuries,
and property
loss
Interstate Commerce: Supporting America’s
global competitiveness, growth in productivity,
economic development, and national defense
through an improved multi-modal freight system
Congestion Reduction and Connectivity for
Urban and Rural Areas: Improving the ability of
highway, transit, and rail to improve personal
mobility, connectivity, and accessibility
System Operations: Using
Environment: Enhancing
advanced management techniques community quality of life
and technologies to assure travel and minimizing impacts on
reliability and provide effective
the environment and global
emergency response in disasters
climate change
Technical Task Forces
• Technical task forces created centered around:
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9.
Safety
Pavement Preservation
Bridge Preservation
Congestion/Operations
Connectivity
Environment
Freight/Economic Competitiveness
Transit
Livability
• Offered 2-4 performance indicators in each key area
– Working with relevant stakeholders to ensure recommendations could be
embraced as national performance metrics.
– Developed a tiered approach.
Readiness Criteria
Criteria
Initial Measures –
Ready for Deployment
General consensus on the definition of the
measure

Common or centralized approach to data
collection in place

Availability of consistent data across states
established through a national comparative
analysis or other research effort

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Candidate Initial Set of Performance
Measures for Rollout
Goal Area
Initial Measures – Ready for Deployment
Safety
Multiple year moving average of the
number of fatalities
Pavement Preservation
NHS IRI
Bridge Preservation
Deck Area of structurally deficient bridges on NHS
Congestion/Operations
Speed based metric
Connectivity
No initial measures
Environment
No initial measures
Freight/Economic
Competitiveness
Speed/travel time on significant freight corridors
(SFC)
Reliability on SFCs
Transit
No initial measures
Livability
No initial measures
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Programmatic Task Forces
• Planning and Programming
– Focus on implementation of performance measures into the planning and programming
process
– Engaging Metropolitan and Regional Planning Organizations
• Comparative Performance Measurement Efforts
– Demonstrate state DOTs can compare performance in areas key to every DOT’s mission.
National Forum on Performance-Based
Planning and Programming
• Co-Sponsored/Organized by
AASHTO, APTA, AMPO, NADO,
FHWA, FTA
• Funded by FHWA, FTA,
AASHTO thru NCHRP 20-24 (58)
and the Volpe Center
• Participants equally divided among
State DOTs, MPOs and transit
agencies with some representation
of rural planning agencies as well
• Two and a half day meeting in Dallas
(Sept 13-15, 2010)
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Key Themes and Issues
Better
education and
communication
Positive
“vibe”
Stronger link
between LRPs
and programs
Connection to
funding
Targets
Importance of
a national
performance
measures
program
A Key Ingredient
Collaboration
Comparative Performance Measures
Program
OBJECTIVES
Provide states
with
comparative
view of
performance
relative to
peers
Share
information on
practices of
better
performing
states
Understand Get buy-in from
current state states, agree on
guidelines or
of the data –
standards for
work towards
comparability –
common
qualify
definitions and
measures for
measurement
Tier 1 status
practices
Useful
practices and
sharing of
knowledge and
self improvement is
the goal - not
punishment
RELATIONS TO NATIONAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES
CPM provides
valuable input
for
development
of national
performance
measures
Gain “on the
ground”
experience
working with
available data
Involve
states in
building
consensus
around
measures
Vet candidate
national
measures
Has allowed
states to get
ahead of the
curve to help
influence the
authorizing
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environment
Comparative Performance
Measurement Projects
CPM Infrastructure
NCHRP 20-24(37F)
- Framework & functional description for
comparative performance database &
analysis infrastructure
- Implementation and stewardship
approach for the database & web site
Technical Standards & Guidance
NCHRP 20-24(37G)
- Tier 1 Measure definitions, calculation
methods, reporting formats
- Action needed to progress Tiers 2&3
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- Implementation guidance for nationwide
performance program implementation
Future Activities
• Complete technical guidance framework
• Adopt technical guidance framework for each of the goal
areas and performance measures
• Support state data collection efforts
• Operationalize/Implement the use of national performance
measures in the decision-making process
• SCOPM will collectively look at the integration of other
modes in the performance measures