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54 A P P E N D I X D State DOT Performance Measures The following table compiled from the literature review identifies the DOTs that use freight performance measures in their freight prioritization methodology. Table D-1.
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State DOT Performance Measures 55 • Quality of service/level of service Massachusetts DOT • Number and rate of fatalities on all public roads • Number and rate of serious injuries on all public roads • Number of nonmotorized fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads • Percent of interstate pavements in good or poor condition • Percent of noninterstate National Highway System (NHS) pavements in good or poor condition • Percent of NHS bridges in good or poor condition • Truck travel time reliability (TTTR)
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56 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects • Annual hours of truck delay • Truck reliability index Nebraska DOT • Traffic AADT • Truck AADT percentage • Bridge conditions • Pavement conditions • Truck restrictions -- weight restrictions • Truck restrictions -- low bridge clearance • Truck count data • Speed Nevada DOT • Cost of project • Value or cost • AADT • Average crashes per mile on projects • Total number of bottlenecks within or near the project New Jersey DOT • Average truck travel speed • Truck travel time index • Truck traffic count • Truck crash cluster Ohio DOT • Travel time reliability index • Snow and ice control • Annual number of crashes • Annual number of serious injuries • Annual number of fatalities • Percentage of roads on the state freight system (SFS) with acceptable pavement condition ratings • Percentage of bridges on the SFS with acceptable general appraisal conditions ratings
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State DOT Performance Measures 57 • Percentage of the highway component on the SFS covered by Ohio DOT's intelligent transportation system (ITS) and displayed on OHGO.com • Percentage of Ohio MPOs and rural transportation planning organizations that incorporate performance-based planning into their long-range plans • Amount of non-Ohio DOT investment capital leveraged • Number of approved and delivered economic development projects delivered on time • Total amount of diesel emission reduction grants • Percentage of diesel emission reduction grants projects completed within 24 months of award Oklahoma DOT • Number of shoulder miles unpaved along project segment • Truck crash reduction factor for injuries times base injury rate • Truck crash reduction factor for fatalities times base fatality rate • Number of bridges in poor condition • Average pavement condition throughout project segment • Average volume of heavy-loaded trucks • Average truck proportion throughout project segment • Percent truck volume increase (2025)
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58 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects Pennsylvania DOT • Percent of pavement in good or bad condition • Pavement structure index • Percent of structurally deficient bridges • Number of load-restricted bridges • Number of fatalities and serious injuries • Rates of crashes with fatalities and serious injuries per VMT • Number of fatalities and serious injuries in work zones • Number of rail-crossing fatalities, serious injuries, and incidents • Annual hours of truck or auto delays (cost of delays) • Percent or number of freight bottlenecks eliminated • Annual transit ridership • Annual savings through the Pennsylvania DOT modernization • Timely delivery of approved local projects • Timely delivery of highway occupancy permits • Number of municipal officials trained through the local technical assistance program on the coordination of and use and transportation planning Rhode Island DOT • Travel time reliability • Truck congestion on interstates • Number of oversize/overweight permits issued annually • Number of truck parking spaces • Number of bridges meeting standards • Total annual rail cargo tonnage • Total annual maritime cargo tonnage • Total annual air cargo tonnage Tennessee DOT • Traffic volumes • Highway crash data • Miles of interstate freeway managed by ITS infrastructure
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State DOT Performance Measures 59 • Roadway and bridge condition data • Highway incident clearance data • Oversize, overweight, or overlength permits • Short-line rail track miles and capacity rating • Rail yard and highway/rail-crossing inspections • Airports meeting design and safety criteria and federal approach standards • Airport pavement condition data • Percentage of businesses with 10 or more employees within 25 miles or 25 minutes of an airport with an instrument approach minimum of at least 400 feet and 1 mile The following table identifies the rest of the state DOTs that maintain a freight prioritization methodology; however, these performance measures are not integrated into the prioritization methodology. Table D-2.
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60 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects • Posted maximum train speeds • Rail bottlenecks or chokepoints • Railroad grade crossing fatalities and injuries • Navigation channel depths • Waterway bridge clearance Colorado • Planning time index Connecticut • Number and rate of traffic fatalities, serious injury • Number and rate of nonmotorized fatalities and serious injury • Percentage of NHS bridges in good and poor condition • Percentage of non-Interstate NHS pavements in good condition • Percentage of non-Interstate pavements in poor condition • Annual hours of peak excessive delay per person • TTTR on the interstate system Delaware • Pavement conditions summary • Bridge conditions summary • Number of total crashes involving large trucks • Number of fatal crashes involving large trucks • Number of persons injured in crashes involving large trucks • Travel time and/or delay in freight-significant corridors • Percent of road mileage at congested speeds < 60% of free-flow speed • Number of commercial vehicle inspections performed • Number of total crashes at public highway-rail crossings Florida • Combined truck miles traveled • Truck miles traveled • Travel time reliability • Travel time variability • Combined truck hours
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State DOT Performance Measures 61 • Combination truck average travel speed • Percent of miles severely congested • Vehicles per lane mile • Aviation, rail, and seaport tonnage Georgia • Reduction in annual highway fatalities • Percent of state-owned bridges meeting the Georgia DOT standards • Percent of state-owned noninterstate roads meeting maintenance standards • Percent of projects constructed on time • Percent of projects constructed on budget • Annual congestion cost per peak auto commuter • Metro Atlanta morning peak hour freeway speeds (general purpose lanes) Idaho • Truck-involved crashes/mile number of truck-involved crashes • Percent modal usage (tons, value)
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62 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects reasonable, near normal surface condition within 24 hours after the end of a winter storm • Average IRI rating weighted by length on the primary highway system • Real cost per vehicle-mile • Travel times along 25 freight-significant corridors Kansas • Truck-involved crashes • Truck-involved fatalities and serious injuries • Rail-at-grade crossing incidents • Uncongested Interstate system miles • TTTR on Interstate • Pavement condition • Bridge condition • Percent short-line rail miles at 286,000 lb Louisiana • Percent of short-line freight rail system capable of supporting 286,000 lb of rail cars • Percent of NHS intermodal connectors meeting pavement condition targets • Number of crashes and fatal crashes involving trucks (and rate) • Number of crashes at rail crossings • Number of collisions on waterways • Number of public truck parking spaces • Number of freight crashes that require environmental cleanup • Acres of wetlands impacted by DOTD or DOTD-funded projects • Change in freight ton-miles • Change in freight tonnage movement by mode • Percentage of miles on freight network Tiers 1 and 2 in an uncongested condition • Number of bottlenecks on freight network addressed by capital projects • Hours of downtime on Tiers 1 and 2 resulting from incidents • Overall annual percentage of all district's A and B highway miles returned to a
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State DOT Performance Measures 63 Maine • Number of incidents on the rail system • Number of incidents at ports • Value of new freight public–private partnerships New Mexico • Quality of roadways • Access to in-state customers • Cargo security • Time in transit • Access to out-of-state customers • Predictability of delivery times • Average cost of shipments • Access to in-state and out-of-state suppliers North Carolina • North Carolina's employment growth relative to national growth in freightrelated, defined target supply chains • Cargo volume through state seaports • Percent of import vs. export commodities by weight and volume • Rail modal share from ports • Travel time reliability • Incident clearance times • Number of congested directional miles • Percent of short-line rail network with 286,000-lb capacity • Number of at-grade crossings within 85% of volume threshold for grade separation eligibility • Average travel time from port gate to freeway • North Carolina's airports' versus all U.S.
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64 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects crashes at at-grade crossings • Percent of crashes involving trucks • Percent of rail crossings with no active warning devices • Percent of lane miles on the North Carolina Priority Highway Freight Network (NCPHFN) in fair or better condition • Percent of North Carolina DOT state-maintained bridges on the NCPHFN that are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete • Percent of NCPHFN with ITS infrastructure • Emissions from truck delay • Freight rail modal share (excluding pass-through)
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State DOT Performance Measures 65 • Truck-related crashes per truck miles traveled on the Texas highway freight network • Percent of all fatal motor vehicle crashes involving trucks on the Texas highway freight network • Number of rail-related crashes • Number of at-grade highway or rail-crossing closures or grade separations • Truck-related fatalities per truck miles traveled on the Texas highway freight network • Number of injuries and fatalities from rail-related crashes • Percent of pavement lane miles in good repair on the Texas highway freight network • Number of load-restricted bridges on the Texas highway freight network • Percent of bridges with vertical clearance less than 16.5 feet on the Texas highway freight network • Percent of bridges in poor condition on the Texas highway freight network • Number of airport cargo-access issues addressed • Number of port-access issues addressed • Volume of international cross-border freight moved by rail • Percent of intermodal connectors in fair or better pavement condition • Annual hours of truck delay on the Texas highway freight network • Completion of annual freight project prioritization • Incident clearance time on the Texas highway freight network Virginia • Truck crashes and rates • Rail incidents and rates • Grade crossing accidents and rates • Change in response time to disaster hazmat and security incidents • Annual average incident clearance time (minutes) on freight network Texas • TTTR index
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66 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects • Change in disruption to freight • Number of truck parking spaces along freight network • Truck-involved crashes resulting from illegal truck parking • Number of active at-grade crossings • Pavement and bridge conditions on freight connectors • Percent of pavement in fair or better condition on the freight network • Percent of structurally deficient bridges on the freight network • Linear feet of rail track preservation or maintenance improvements • Average remaining service life of freight system • Change in mode share • Change in freight system utilization by time of day • Average truck times on freight-significant routes • Sum of lane miles on freight-significant routes above a threshold level of congestion • Planning time on freight-significant routes • Change in average speed through bottlenecks Washington • Number of fatalities on all public roads • Number of fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled on all public roads • Number of serious injuries per 100 million vehicle miles traveled on all public roads • Number of nonmotorist fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads • Percentage of pavements on the Interstate highway system in good or poor condition • Percentage of pavements of the non-Interstate highway system NHS in good or poor condition • Percentage of NHS bridges in good or poor condition
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State DOT Performance Measures 67 • Percent of the person-miles traveled on the Interstate highway system that are reliable • Percent of the person-miles traveled on the non-Interstate highway system NHS that are reliable • TTTR index on the Interstate highway system • Annual hours of peak hour excessive delay per capita • Percent of non–single occupancy vehicle travel • Total emissions reduction Wyoming • Pavement condition • Bridge condition • Bridge height restrictions • Highway closure duration and frequency and light high-profile vehicle closures • Rail safety • Highway safety, including truck crashes, rollovers, and weather conditions that may contribute to crashes
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