2020 - 2024 Transportation Improvement Program
Chapter 2
THE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
National Performance Measures
Background
Pursuant to MAP-21 (and carried through into the FAST Act), MPOs must employ a transportation performance management approach in carrying out their federally-required planning and programming activities. Chapter 23 part 150(b) of the United States Code [23USC §150(b)] includes the following seven national performance goals for the Federal-Aid Highway Program:
- Safety – To achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.
- Infrastructure Condition – To maintain the highway infrastructure asset system in a state of good repair.
- Congestion Reduction – To achieve a significant reduction in congestion on the National Highway System.
- System Reliability – To improve the efficiency of the surface transportation system.
- Freight Movement and Economic Vitality – To improve the national freight network, strengthen the ability of rural communities to access national and international trade markets, and support regional economic development.
- Environmental Sustainability – To enhance the performance of the transportation system while protecting and enhancing the natural environment.
- Reduced Project Delivery Delays – To reduce project costs, promote jobs and the economy, and expedite the movement of people and goods by accelerating project completion through eliminating delays in the project development and delivery process, including reducing regulatory burdens and improving agencies' work practice
On the public transportation side, transportation performance management shall be utilized to advance the general policy and purposes of the public transportation program as included in 49USC §5301(a) and (b).
The Genesee Transportation Council 2020-2024 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) was developed and is managed in cooperation with NYSDOT and the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority. It reflects the investment priorities established in the Long Range Transportation Plan for the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region 2040 (LRTP 2040), which incorporates comments and input from affected agencies and organizations and the public.
TIPs “shall include, to the maximum extent practicable, a description of the anticipated effects of the transportation improvement program toward achieving the performance targets established in the metropolitan transportation plan, linking investment priorities to those performance targets” [23USC §134(j)(2)(D)]. Metropolitan transportation plans (MTPs) adopted or amended after the following dates must include performance targets for the associated measures:
- May 27, 2018 – Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) and Highway Safety
- October 1, 2018 – Transit Asset Management
- October 1, 2018 – Public Transportation Safety Program
- May 20, 2019 – Pavement and Bridge Condition
- May 20, 2019 – System Performance/Freight/Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Improvement Program
MPOs that do not adopt or amend their MTP prior to these dates are still required to support statewide performance targets or establish their own for the measures discussed above, and include “a description of the anticipated effects of the transportation improvement program toward achieving” said targets. This portion of the 2020-2024 Transportation Improvement Program meets these requirements of 23USC §134(j)(2)(D).