FHWA'S MOBILITY MONITORING PROGRAM: TRANSFORMING GIGABYTES OF ARCHIVED OPERATIONS DATA INTO MOBILITY AND RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES

This paper summarizes 1st-year results of the Mobility Monitoring Program, a performance monitoring application sponsored by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Archived operations data from 10 cities was used to develop mobility and reliability performance measure reports. These measures examined the level of travel delay and mobility, as well as the variation in travel conditions within the day and from day-to-day through the year. Numerous tables and charts are used to present various dimensions and summaries of the performance measures for the year 2000. A separate appendix was developed for each city to illustrate detailed summaries of average or unusual conditions for freeway corridors and the network. The 1st year Program demonstrated the potential for using archived operations data for performance monitoring.