Master Transportation Plan Task 3: Performance Measures 4/21/25
meeting or exceeding quality standards.
Austin Strategic Mobility Plan, Austin, Texas 3 The Austin Strategic Mobility Plan presented a total of 156 performance indicators, setting a detailed framework for tracking the plan’s progress to achieve the goals of prioritizing safety, managing demand, supplying the infrastructure, network operation, protecting health and environment, and supporting the community. These measures, while being more specific than other peer cities, share similar core concepts of decreasing traffic fatalities (targeting zero fatalities), improving mobility (e.g., increasing the number of people living within ½ mile of active transportation facilities, increasing travel time reliability and transit ridership), promoting health and equity, and ensuring the efficiency of transportation network operation and transportation project implementation. Focusing on Available Data Measuring performance relies on quality and timely data to assess current performance levels and trends, establish performance targets, and conduct performance forecasts. The CoFW collects and analyzes data from a variety of sources to track safety, pavement condition, air quality, and several other measures. In addition, the city coordinates with regional planning partners such as NCTCOG and Trinity Metro on specific measures such as VMT, travel time reliability, and transit on-time performance. As part of the M1M performance measure process, the project team coordinated with the city’s GIS Department to collect available data, identify potential gaps, and make recommendations on additional performance measures based on data maturity. As the city continues to track and report performance through regular processes, including annual performance reporting and the implementation of M1M policies, it is recommended that measures and targets be revised as new data becomes available. Target Setting After establishing the performance measures, setting performance targets is critical, as they create an observable and quantifiable link between investment decisions and performance outcomes. There are different approaches and resources for organizations that wish to set performance targets. For federal and regional performance measures, most agencies choose to either adopt regional targets or support statewide targets. Ideally, performance targets are outcome focused, such as zero traffic fatalities by 2050. However, some performance measures are tracked without having a defined target. This may be due to a lack of data, making it difficult to derive trends for those categories, or because the performance measure may be indirectly linked to transportation, such as job opportunity increase.
It is recommended that the city set performance targets based on what performance levels they believe
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