Performance Goals – Mobility and Economic Growth
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Highway Infrastructure
Condition................................................
60 150
Highway Congestion..................................................................
63 153
Transit Ridership.......................................................................
66 153
Aviation Delay...........................................................................
68 156
Maritime Navigation...................................................................
72 159
Transportation
Accessibility........................................................
75 161
International
Air Service.............................................................
78 162
Essential Air
Service...................................................................
80 163
Commercial Shipbuilding............................................................
81 163
Transportation
and Education.....................................................
82 164
Amtrak Ridership......................................................................
83 165
Transit System
Condition...........................................................
84 166
STRATEGIC GOALS: MOBILITY and ECONOMIC
GROWTH
Shape an accessible, affordable, reliable transportation system for all
people, goods, and regions.
Support a transportation system that sustains America’s economic growth.
We Aim To
Achieve These Strategic Outcomes:
▪
Improve the
physical condition of the transportation system.
▪
![Text Box: Performance Goals
Improve Physical Condition
Highway Infrastructure Condition
[With deficient bridge and Appalachian Development Highway System mileage goals in FHWA performance plan.]
Reduce Transportation Time and Improve Service
Highway Congestion
[With urban peak-period travel time, annual additional travel hours, and ITS deployment goals in FHWA performance plan.]
Transit Ridership
[With passenger miles traveled goal in FTA performance plan.]
Increase Trip Time Reliability
Aviation Delay
[With air traffic system capacity and efficiency goals in FAA performance plan.]
Maritime Navigation
[With icebreaking goal in USCG performance plan.]
Increase Access to Transportation
Transportation Accessibility
[With transit system condition goal in FTA performance plan.]
Reduce Trade Barriers and Improve International Competitiveness
International Air Service](mobility/image001.gif)
Reduce transportation time from origin to destination
for the individual transportation user.
▪
Increase
the reliability of trip times for the individual transportation user.
▪
Increase
access to transportation systems for the individual user.
▪
Reduce the
cost of transportation for the individual user.
▪
Ensure
the Producer Price Index for transportation services grows less rapidly than
the overall PPI through the year 2005.
▪
Reduce
barriers to trade that are related to transportation.
▪
Improve
the U.S. international competitive position in transportation goods and services.
▪
Improve
the capacity of the transportation workforce.
▪
Expand opportunities for all
businesses, especially small, women-owned, and disadvantaged businesses (discussed
in the Organizational Excellence chapter).
Mobility as much as any other
factor defines us as a Nation, and is intertwined with the Nation’s economic
growth. It connects people with work, school, community
services, markets, and other people. The
U.S. transportation system carries over 4.6 trillion passenger-miles of travel
and 3.9 trillion ton-miles of freight every year – generated by more than
276 million people and 6 million businesses.
DOT’s aim is an affordable,
reliable and accessible transportation system. To achieve reliability and
accessibility, our transportation system frequently relies on common public
infrastructure that is maintained on limited national resources – our land,
waterways, and airspace. DOT’s objective
is to optimize capital investment in these public systems and manage them
to maximize the benefit to all Americans. The FY 2003 budget proposes $38.9
billion in mobility funding to meet this challenge.
A summary performance report,
and a detailed analysis of 2003 strategies follow.
Performance Report: Mobility and Economic Growth
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1995
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1996
|
1997
|
1998
|
1999
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2000
|
2001
|
2001 Target
|
Met
|
Not
Met
|
|
Percent
miles of NHS roads meeting pavement performance standards
|
89.6
|
91.1(r)
|
91.8
|
92.1
|
93.0
|
93.5(r)
|
93.9#
|
91.9
|
ü
|
|
|
Percent
of deficient NHS bridges
|
25.7
|
25.8
|
23.4
|
23.1
|
23.0
|
21.5
|
21.2
|
22.3
|
ü
|
|
|
Percent
of runways in good or fair condition
|
N/A
|
93
|
95
|
95
|
95
|
95
|
95.8
|
93
|
ü
|
|
|
Runways
accessible in low visibility conditions
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
1,044
|
1,083
|
1,084
|
1,109
|
1,229
|
1,191
|
ü
|
|
|
Average
condition of motor bus fleet
|
2.95
|
3.02
|
3.09
|
3.11
|
3.13
|
3.21
|
3.02
|
3.20
|
|
ü
|
|
Average
condition of rail vehicle fleet
|
3.15
|
3.13
|
3.09
|
3.08
|
3.14
|
3.25
|
3.48
|
3.24
|
ü
|
|
|
% of total
annual urban-area travel occurring in congested conditions***
|
N/A
|
32.0
|
31.7(r)
|
32.1(r)
|
32.6
|
33.1
|
33.4#
|
33.4
|
ü
|
|
|
Additional
% of annual urban-area peak period travel time attributable to congestion***
|
N/A
|
43(r)
|
45(r)
|
47(r)
|
49(r)
|
51(r)
|
52#
|
52(r)
|
ü
|
|
|
Average
annual hours of extra travel time due to delays for the individual traveler
in urban areas***
|
N/A
|
26.8(r)
|
28.1(r)
|
29.1(r)
|
30.6(r)
|
31.2(r)
|
31.7#
|
31.7(r)
|
ü
|
|
|
Metropolitan
areas where integrated ITS infrastructure is deployed
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
36
|
N/A
|
49
|
52
|
52
|
56
|
|
ü
|
|
Transit
ridership in billion passenger-miles traveled
|
38.0
|
39.0
|
40.2
|
42.6
|
43.3
|
45.1(r)
|
46.3
|
44.8
|
ü
|
|
|
% cumulative
throughput increase during peak periods at certain major airports
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
3.9
|
3
|
ü
|
|
|
% cumulative
direct routings increase for en route flight phase
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
23.4
|
15
|
ü
|
|
|
Percent
of ports reporting landside and waterside impediments to the flow of
commerce**
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
Aviation
delays per 100,000 activities
|
154
|
181
|
161
|
191
|
220
|
250
|
254
|
171
|
|
ü
|
|
Commercial
vessel collisions, allisions, and groundings
|
N/A
|
2,716
(r)
|
2,456
(r)
|
2,445
(r)
|
2,194
(r)
|
2,152
(r)
|
1,677*
|
2,204
|
ü
|
|
|
Percent
of days in shipping season that the U.S. sectors of the St. Lawrence
Seaway are available, including the two U.S. locks in Massena, N.Y.
|
98
|
97
|
98
|
98.5
|
99.2
|
98.7
|
98.3
|
99
|
|
ü
|
|
Days certain
critical waterways are closed due to ice
|
N/A
|
7
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
7
|
8^
|
ü
|
|
Performance Report: Mobility and Economic Growth
| |
1995
|
1996
|
1997
|
1998
|
1999
|
2000
|
2001
|
2001 Target
|
Met
|
Not
Met
|
|
Amtrak's
intercity ridership in millions of passengers
|
20.7
|
19.7
|
20.2
|
21.1
|
21.5
|
22.5
|
23.5
|
25.3
|
|
ü
|
|
Percent of key rail stations ADA compliant
|
19
|
19
|
26
|
29
|
49
|
52
|
67*
|
58
|
ü
|
|
|
Percent
bus fleets ADA compliant
|
60
|
63
|
68
|
72
|
77
|
80
|
85
|
83
|
ü
|
|
|
Employment
sites made accessible by Job Access and Reverse Commute transportation
services
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
1,742
|
16,978
(r)
|
35,700*
|
15,724
|
ü
|
|
|
Passengers
(millions) in international markets with open skies aviation agreements
|
34.5
|
38.4
|
40.7
|
43.0
|
49.4
|
56.8
|
56.2*
|
51.6
|
ü
|
|
|
Percent
subsidized communities with at least 2 round trips/day, 6 days/week
(12 round trips/week)
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
ü
|
|
|
Percent
subsidized communities with at least 3 round trips/day, 6 days/week
(18 round trips/week)
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
76
|
78
|
77
|
78
|
75
|
ü
|
|
|
Miles of
Appalachian Development Highway System completed
|
2,178
|
2,204
|
2,259
|
2,409
|
2,456
|
2,483
|
2,526
|
2,530
|
|
ü
|
|
Gross tonnage
(in thousands) of commercial vessels on order or under construction
in U.S. shipyards
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
579
|
407
|
595
|
1,100
|
1,162*
|
530
|
ü
|
|
|
Students
graduating with transportation-related advanced degrees from universities
receiving DOT funding
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
1,167
|
1,086
|
1,154
|
1,160
|
1,203
|
|
ü
|
|
Cumulative
number of students (in thousands) reached through Garrett A. Morgan
Technology and Transportation Futures Program
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
71
|
1,031
|
1,502
|
3,000
|
N/A
|
5,000
|
|
|
# Projection
N/A = Not
Available
(r) Revised
estimate
* Preliminary
estimate
** Data for
this goal were unreliable, and it was discontinued after 2001.
*** Methodology
change (starting with 2000 data) makes historical data before 2000 unreliable.
2001 goal has been changed to new methodology.
^ Based on
2001 being a “severe winter.”
Highway Infrastructure Condition:
The National Highway System (NHS) carries 1 trillion or 43 percent of vehicle-miles
traveled (VMT), but consists of only 161,117 miles of rural and urban roads--just
4 percent of total highway miles—and 115,000 bridges. The system serves major
population centers, international border crossings, intermodal transportation
facilities, and major travel destinations. The condition of this system can affect wear-and-tear
on vehicles, fuel consumption, travel time, congestion, and comfort, as well
as public safety. Improving pavement
and bridge condition is also important to the long-term structural integrity
and cost effectiveness of the transportation system. Approximately 21 percent
of NHS bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
Performance
Goal:
Improve and expand
the NHS to increase system efficiency, slow the growth of traffic congestion,
and improve safety.
Performance
Plan:
Performance
Measure:
Percentage of travel on the
NHS meeting pavement performance standards for acceptable ride.
1999 2000
2001 2002
2003
Target: N/A
N/A N/A 92.0 92.5
Actual: 90.5
90.9 91.5#
(r)
Revised; # Projection from trends.
External
Factors: VMT has
grown annually by over 2 percent during the past decade, in consonance with
the U.S. economy’s growth. Growth in freight volume resulting in increased
loads on pavement has increased pavement and bridge deterioration.
Strategies and Initiatives to Achieve 2003 Target: DOT resources
attributable to this performance goal are depicted below:
FHWA will continue to work with the States and other
authorities to promote infrastructure development and improvements using Surface
Transportation Research program funding, grants, technical assistance and
technological advances. Through the
pavement smoothness team, FHWA will work with American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) to develop and deliver technology
transfer and training programs to promote the implementation of pavement smoothness
technologies. FHWA will provide technical
assistance and training to State DOTs to implement these new technologies,
and in cooperation with States and industry, will also continue to promote
the Pavement Smoothness Initiative. FHWA will encourage equipment upgrade
and adoption of recommended protocols, and work with profile measuring equipment
manufacturers to offer better equipment for measuring pavement smoothness.
FHWA will provide technical assistance to increase the number of States
achieving a medium or high rating for implementing high-performance bridge
materials. Research and Bridge Program
funds will support deployment of innovative and more durable materials, which
are more resistant to traffic loads and corrosive attack, resulting in less
maintenance and traffic restriction. FHWA
will continue to provide technical assistance to States and local governments
in the use of high performance materials, new design techniques, and cost
effective bridge design details.
Other
Federal Programs with Common Outcomes:
None.
Performance Report:
FHWA
supplementary performance measures*:
Percentage of miles on the NHS
meeting pavement performance standards for acceptable ride.
1999 2000
2001 2002
2003
Target: 91.5
91.8 91.9 * *
Actual: 93
93.5(r) 93.9#
Percentage of deficient bridges
on the NHS.
1999 2000
2001 2002
2003
Target: 22.8
22.5 22.3 * *
Actual: 23.0
21.5 21.2
Miles of the Appalachian Development
Highway System (ADHS) completed.
1999
2000 2001 2002
2003
Target: 2,327
2,373 2,530 * *
Actual: 2,456(r) 2,483
2,526