The FHWA’s Office of Freight Management and Operations (HOFM) and Office of Transportation Management (HOTM) require the use of a national travel time data set to support analyses for the Freight Performance Measures Program (FPM) and documents such as the Urban Congestion Report. In 2013, the HOFM acquired a National Performance Measures Research Data Set (NPMRDS) for this purpose. After passage of the national Moving Ahead for Progress (MAP 21) legislation, FHWA determined that this data set could also assist states and metropolitan planning organizations in their freight planning, performance measurement, and other operations efforts, and it decided to make the data set available to a broader community of users. As a subcontractor to Cambridge Systematics, TRAC researchers provided technical assistance to the growing community of NPMRDS users in analyzing roadway performance and in linearly referencing and visualizing the data. Staff responded to technical questions asked by NPMRDS users, assisted in developing reports that assessed users and their data needs, and produced a website to guide users in applying the NPMRDS data set.
Principal Investigator: Mark E. Hallenbeck, Washington State Transportation Center, UW
Sponsors:
FHWA
Cambridge Systematics
Cambridge Systematics Technical Monitor: Rich Margiotta
Scheduled completion: August 2017