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Performance Measurement

The FHWA Office of Freight Management and Operations and other stakeholders are developing performance measures for freight transportation. Freight-specific performance measures help to identify needed transportation improvements and monitor their effectiveness. They also serve as indicators of economic health and traffic congestion.

Freight Performance Measurement at FHWA

• Border Crossing Delay
• Travel Time in Freight Significant Corridors - includes the FPMweb Tool

Other Freight Performance Measurement Information

• A Guidebook for Sustainability Performance Measurement for Transportation Agencies
• FPM Congestion Monitoring at 250 Freight Significant Highway Locations: Final Results of the 2010 Performance Assessment
  • New Freight Traffic Data Point to More Congestion on Key Highways, FHWA Press Release, Wednesday, September 21, 2011
• 2009 Bottleneck Analysis of 100 Freight Significant Highway Locations
• Abraham Lincoln on Freight Performance Measurement
• Lock Use, Performance, and Characteristics
• Measuring Improvements in the Movement of Highway and Intermodal Freight [HTML, DOC 238KB]
• National Cooperative Freight Research Program Project on Performance Measures for Freight Transportation
• Performance Measures for Freight Transportation
• Railroad Performance Measures
• The Florida Department of Transportation Systems Planning Office on Project Multimodal and Corridor Applications of Travel Time Reliability [PDF 587KB]
• Using Archived Truck GPS Data for Freight Performance Analysis on I-94/I-90 from the Twin Cities to Chicago Final Report [PDF 4.1MB]

General Performance Measurement

• FHWA Operations Performance Measurement Program
• Highway Performance Monitoring System
• International scan on Linking Transportation Performance and Accountability
• Performance Measurement Library (completed by Washington State DOT)
• Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions and Performance Report: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
• Transportation Research Board Performance Measurement Committee
• USDOT Performance and Accountability Report [PDF 3.9MB]

Related Topics

• Freight Congestion
• Freight Technology

Staff Contacts

Ed Strocko
202-366-2997
Ed.Strocko@dot.gov

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