Performance Based Planning: A Federal Perspective

1. Performance Based Planning: A Federal Perspective Gloria Shepherd, FHWA National Forum on Performance-Based Planning Dallas, Texas September 13, 2010

2. Performance Based Planning • Basic Themes • Accountability • Transparency • System Performance • Outcome Based • Cost Effective Decision Making

3. The Change • From a federal perspective, instead of just placing emphasis on the transportation planning process itself, more emphasis would be placed on outcomes from the planning process. • Similarly, instead of placing emphasis on individual facility performance, more emphasis would be placed on overall system performance.

4. The Steps • Identify National Goal Areas • Safety • State of Good Repair • Mobility and Congestion • Environment • Freight • Livability

5. The Steps • Identify Performance Objectives • Identify Performance Measures • Identify Performance Targets • Identify Performance Timeframes

6. The Steps • Metropolitan and Statewide plans would contain goals, objectives, performance metrics, and time frames that lead to strategies that directly support meeting the identified goal areas and targets • STIPs and TIPs include projects that support the plans

7. The Transition • Focus on a limited set of Goals to Start • Start with a limited # of performance measures (i.e. 1 or 2 per goal area) • Focus on data that is available now and is reliable

8. The Benefits • Investment decisions directly support identified goals and targets in the plan • Accountability to the public, elected officials, Congress • Shows the effect of investments on system performance (accountability) • Decisions on what the goals, targets and strategies are made collaboratively

9. Questions? Gloria Shepherd Director, Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty Federal Highway Administration Washington, DC 20590 Gloria.Shepherd@dot.gov