Public Comment Period: Performance Targets

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Performance Targets Packet

Attachment: Performance Targets packet

OTO Recommends Performance Targets
Federal transportation law requires OTO to set performance targets. This year, all targets will be reviewed.

Safety

Five individual targets comprise the Safety Targets:

1. Number of fatalities
2. Rate of fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled
3. Number of serious injuries
4. Rate of serious injuries per 100 million vehicle miles traveled
5. Number of non-motorized fatalities and non-motorized serious injuries

OTO can choose to set local targets or can choose to plan and program in support of the MoDOT targets, which are based on a rolling five-year average:

System Condition

Six individual targets comprise the Bridge and Pavement Targets:

1. Percentage of NHS Bridges Classified as in Good Condition
2. Percentage of NHS Bridges Classified as in Poor Condition
3. Percentage of Pavements of the Interstate System in Good Condition
4. Percentage of Pavements of the non-Interstate NHS in Good Condition
5. Percentage of Pavements of the Interstate System in Poor Condition
6. Percentage of Pavements of the non-Interstate NHS in Poor Condition

Targets will be reviewed and may be updated every two years. OTO can choose to set local targets or can choose to plan and program in support of the MoDOT targets:

System Performance

There are also six individual targets for System Performance, however only three of them apply to OTO:

1. Interstate Travel Time Reliability Measure: Percent of Person-Miles Traveled on the Interstate that are Reliable (NPMRDS)
2. *Non-Interstate Travel Time Reliability Measure: Percent of Person-Miles Traveled on the Non-Interstate NHS that are Reliable (NPMRDS)
3. *Peak Hour Excessive Delay (PHED) Measure: Annual Hours of PHED Per Capita (single unified target for EWG, IDOT, MoDOT) (NPMRDS)
4. Non-Single Occupancy Vehicle Travel (SOV) Measure: Percent of non-SOV Travel (single unified target for EWG, IDOT, MoDOT) (ACS)
5. Freight Reliability Measure: Truck Travel Time Reliability (TTTR) Index (NPMRDS)

*4-year target for 2022 initially for phase in and may be adjusted in 2020; in 2022, must establish 2- and 4-year targets

Targets will be reviewed and may be updated every two years. OTO can choose to set local targets or can choose to plan and program in support of the MoDOT targets:

Transit Asset Management

Four individual targets comprise the TAM Targets:

1. Equipment
2. Rolling Stock
3. Facilities
4. Infrastructure

OTO can choose to set local targets or can choose to plan and program in support of the MoDOT targets:

Transit Safety

City Utilities elected to develop their own Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan rather than participate in the statewide plan. The transit safety performance measures have also been expanded to cover multiple metrics. These are outlined in the agenda packet, rather than listed here.

OTO can choose to set local targets or can choose to plan and program in support of the CU targets.

Visit http://giveusyourinput.org to review the Targets in further detail and to submit comments. Comments can also be submitted in writing to Ozarks Transportation Organization, 2208 W. Chesterfield Boulevard, Suite 101, Springfield, Missouri 65807, emailed to comment@ozarkstransportation.org, or faxed to 417-862-6013.

The public comment period will end at 5 pm on January 15, 2025. The OTO Board of Directors will review and consider approving the Targets at their January 16, 2025 Board Meeting, held at 12:00 noon. After reviewing recommendations and entertaining public comment, the OTO Board of Directors will decide whether to formally adopt the targets.

For more information, contact: Natasha Longpine, Transportation Planning Manager, Ozarks Transportation Organization, 2208 W. Chesterfield Boulevard, Suite 101, Springfield, Missouri 65807, 417-865-3042.

Ozarks Transportation Organization is your Springfield-regional Metropolitan Planning Organization, or MPO. The MPO is a body of elected and appointed members who work together with local, state and federal elected officials and policy-makers, serving to make funding and planning decisions for transportation within the Springfield, MO region.

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