Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Planning Practice: A Peer Exchange, Charleston, South Carolina, May 6, 2004

This report summarizes the results of a peer review on the use of performance measures to improve transportation planning and its relationship to project programming. The review was coordinated through the Transportation Planning Capacity Building (TPCB) program, which is sponsored jointly by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Standing Committee on Planning hosted the event as part of its annual meeting. The one-day peer review focused on how state departments of transportation (DOTs) are using performance measures to improve planning practices. Representatives of 13 DOTs shared their approaches and discussed the successes and challenges experienced in programming and planning. The agencies presented diverse approaches to performance measurement and demonstrated that states can tailor the implementation of performance measures to their own particular transportation context and needs.