The Office of Highway Policy InformationHighway Information SeminarOctober 2012

Who We AreFHWA Office of Highway Policy Information

David Winter, PE

Motor Fuel and Tax Evasion

Ralph DavisMike DoughertyBryant GrossDawn EdwardsPatrick Zhang, PE1

Brad Gudzinas1

Highway System Performance

Ralph GillmannRob RozyckiTom RoffJoe HausmanRon EricksonRon VaughnJustin Clarke

Highway Finance and Recovery Act

Chris AllenClarissa SmithRon Vaughn1

Mike SlatteryTychelle Staten2

Monique Snow2

Maria Bonilla2

Paolo Angulo3

Chris Lehner3

1 – Individual providing long term assistance to different Division.2 – Student.3 – Contractor.

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Tianjia Tang, PEAdella SantosSteven JessbergerDanny Jenkins, PEPatrick Zhang, PEDavid JonesBrad GudzinasDanielle Gray3

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Our Mission

1) To serve as the national source of surface transportation data.

2) Provide the U.S. DOT, Congress, and transportation community with accurate information products in a timely manner to inform the development and implementation of, and serve as the foundation for decisions, policies, legislation, programs, and performance goals.

3) Constantly strive to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of highway data collection and analysis on travelers and the physical, operational and financial condition of our transportation system.

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Our Programs

• Driver Licensing• Highway Finance• Highway Performance Monitoring System• Motor Fuel• Motor Vehicle Registration• National Household Travel Survey• Recovery Act• Tax Evasion• Toll Facilities• Traffic Monitoring • Weigh-in-Motion

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Our Data Systems

• Fuels and Financial Analysis System-Highways (Fuels and FASH)

• Travel Monitoring and Analysis System (TMAS)• Highway Performance Monitoring System

(HPMS)• National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)• Vehicle Travel Information System (VTRIS)• Recovery Act Data System (RADS)

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How Do We Succeed

• See the big picture• Understand our role• Be proficient with technology• Have a can do attitude• Practice and promote team work• Working closely with our partners and stakeholders:

• State DOT’s• Divisions and other Offices• Other Operating Administrations and Fed Agencies• AASHTO and TRB 6

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Key FHWA Business Uses

• Apportionment of Federal-aid Funds• Performance Measurement• FHWA Reports on the Nation’s Highways• Development of new programs and initiatives• Help assess and quantify the impact, condition, and

performance of the nation’s highways:• Know what happened in the past• Understand what is going on now• Foresee what is needed in the future

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Apportionment• Process for Distributing Highway Trust Fund (HTF) dollars

to States• Legislated by formula• Driven by data submitted by State s, specifically:

• Lane-miles• Annual VMT• Payments into the Highway Trust Fund based on:

• Motor fuel • Registered motor vehicles• …

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Programs Apportioned Using DataYour

• Railway-Highway Crossings• National Highway Performance Program• Surface Transportation Program• Highway Safety Improvement Program

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Performance Measures

• FHWA program offices are the “goal champions” responsible for determining performance measures

• OHPI role is to help determine availability, quality, and suitability of existing data for use

• For some measures OHPI analyzes the data• Want to avoid multiple data collections of same data • Our emphasis is “collect once, use often” U

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Agency Performance Measures

• Highway-Related Fatalities per 100 Million VMT• Highway-Related Injuries per 100 Million VMT• % of VMT on NHS with IRI < 170• % of STRAHNET Miles with IRI < 170• Annual Hours of Delay• Congested Travel U

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FHWA Reports• To Congress• To U.S. DOT• Office publications

• Highway Statistics• Selected Highway Statistics• Our Nation’s Highways• Toll Facilities in the United States

• Monthly trend reports• Traffic Volume Trends• Motor Fuel

• Recovery Act reports• Special reports, briefs, and analysis

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Reports to Congress

Conditions & Performance Report• Extent of System• Roadway Condition• System Performance• Funding Sources

• Federal, State, Local, Other• Expenditures by:

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Reports to U.S. DOT

• Typically short-notice special reports on a wide variety of topics• Used to inform program and policy discussions

• Present ideas• Study impacts

• Respond to special requests• Information usually presented as a chart or map U

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Office Publications

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Monthly Reports

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Recovery Act Reports• Weekly list of projects• Statutory reports

• Quarterly 1512• Periodic 1201(c)• Quarterly 1609 NEPA

• Special reports• Jobs• Accomplishments• Milestones• etc

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Special Reports, Briefs and Analysis

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Principal Arterials:218,360

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NHS Intermodal Connectors: 2,454

NHS Mainline: 161,641NHS: 164,095Route Miles from

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Quality Data

Characteristics of Quality Data:• Accurate• Timely• Complete• Meets expectations • Consistent across States

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How do we improve data quality?

• Provide reporting guidance• Guide to Reporting Highway Statistics• Traffic Monitoring Guide• HPMS Field Manual• RADS Guidance

• Provide training and technical support• Onsite• Regional workshops• Remote

• New analytic tools and techniques

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New Tools – RADS Viewer

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Data Source: 2010 National Bridge Inventory (NBI)

New Tools – RADS Viewer

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Data Source: 2010 National Bridge Inventory (NBI)

New Tools – Traffic Data QA/QC

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Data Source: 2011 Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS)

New Tools – NHTS Data Visualization

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Data Source: 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)

Major Initiatives• Census considering using HPMS networks for TIGER Maps• Data Governance Council• Data Integration Project• Developing a Pavement Monitoring Guide• Development of Data Portal• Functional Classification Guidance• Long distance multimodal passenger travel origin destination data

development• New network requirements for HPMS• Preparing for reassessment of finance data• RADS Viewer rollout• Updating the Traffic Monitoring Guide

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Office Websitehttp://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/

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Community of Practicehttps://www.transportationresearch.gov/dot/fhwa/hcx/default.aspx

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Summary• Role and functions of the Office of Highway Policy Information

• Provide surface transportation data and information products to a broad set of customers

• In close cooperation with our partners and stakeholders• Types of Data Programs

• System extent, use, condition and performance• Transportation demographics• Vehicles, drivers, fuel, and finance• Monthly motor fuel and travel

• Initiatives and Programs We Support• Data quality, visualization, integration, and analysis• Corporate governance of FHWA data programs• Modeling and forecasting

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Thank You!

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