# Presentation: 807934

## Uses of State Highway Data in the FHWA Office of Legislation and Strategic Planning

- Highway Information Seminar
- November 17, 2004
- Ross Crichton
- Team Leader, Highway Needs & Investment Analysis
- FHWA Office of Legislation and Strategic Planning

## Primary HPLS Uses of State Data

- Apportionments Analysis
- Conditions and Performance Report

## Apportionments AnalysisBackground and Purpose

- Background: Established as a means to facilitate the coordination of technical assistance requests and provide responses to Congress and senior FHWA leadership on the potential implications of legislative proposals under consideration in a timely manner
- Purpose: To respond to requests for technical assistance involving the computation of State-by-State apportionments based on various alternative programs and formula factors stemming from the evaluation of proposed legislative changes

## Apportionment AnalysisLegislation:  Current & Proposed 

- Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
- 	(TEA-21), FY 1998 – FY 2003
- Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2004
- 	(SAFETEA – S.1072), FY 2004 – FY 2009
- Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century – A Legacy for Users
- 	(TEA-LU – H.R.3550), FY 2004 – FY 2009
- Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004 – Part V (STEA04-Part V), 10/1/04 through 05/31/05

## Apportionment AnalysisFactors Derived from HPMS:  Lane Miles

- Existing
- Interstate System Lane Miles
- Lane Miles of Other Principal Arterials
- Lane Miles of Federal-aid Highways
- Proposed
- Lane Miles of rural minor collectors and rural local roads

## Apportionment AnalysisOther Factors Derived from HPMS

- Existing
- Vehicle Miles Traveled on the Interstates
- VMT on other Principal Arterials
- VMT on Federal-aid Highways
- Proposed
- VMT on all public roads
- Number of NHS Miles

## Apportionment AnalysisApportionment Factors Derived from 551M

- Highway Account Contributions
- STP, Minimum Guarantee, etc.
- Diesel Fuel Usage
- Interstate Maintenance program
- Commercial Vehicle Contributions
- NHS program

## Apportionment AnalysisLessons Learned from 1058 Analyses

- Lots of creative ideas for formulas
- Everyone cares a lot about how much each State gets under any scenario.
- Program formulas interact with Equity Programs (Minimum Guarantee, Equity Bonus, etc.) in ways that are hard to predict.

## Apportionment AnalysisImportance of Data Accuracy

- Accuracy in collection and reporting both HPMS and motor-fuel data is critical
- Inaccuracy may not affect your State’s apportionments in a given situation but may significantly impact the apportionments of other States

## Conditions and Performance ReportBackground and Purpose

- Official Title:  *Status of the Nation’s Highways, Bridges and Transit:  Conditions and Performance* Report to Congress
- Required by TEA-21 and earlier statutes
- Purpose: To provide Congress and other decision makers with an objective appraisal of highway, bridge and transit conditions, performance, finance and future investment requirements

## Conditions and Performance ReportReport Perspectives

- Retrospective
- Description of the current system
- Recent trends
- Prospective
- Future needs
- Performance projections
- Both perspectives draw  heavily on HPMS and FHWA-500 series data

## Conditions and Performance ReportRetrospective:  Uses of HPMS Data

- System Characteristics
- Physical Condition
- Operational Performance

## Conditions and Performance ReportRetrospective: Use of FHWA-500 Series Data

- Finance
- Income and Expenditure Data
- Capital and Maintenance
- Funding Sources

## Conditions and Performance ReportFuture Investment Requirements Scenarios

- Cost to Improve Highways and Bridges
- Cost to implement all cost beneficial improvements - $106.9 billion
- Cost to Maintain Highways and Bridges
- Cost to maintain average highway user costs at current levels - $75.9 billion
- Scenarios presented as average annual constant dollar estimates over 20 years

## Conditions and Performance ReportHighway Economic Requirements System (HERS)

- Used to estimate investment requirements for pavement preservation and system expansion
- Potential improvements evaluated on the basis of savings in user costs, agency maintenance costs, and emissions costs

## Conditions and Performance ReportHighway Economic Requirements System (HERS)

- HERS uses HPMS Sample Data as primary input source
- Current section characteristics
- Future AADT
- Widening feasibility
- Data are used to model key condition and performance measures
- Pavement condition
- Alignment adequacy
- Congestion and delay

## Conditions and Performance ReportSources of Other Investment Estimates

- Bridge Preservation
- Modeled using the National Bridge Investment Analysis System (NBIAS) based on National Bridge Inventory (NBI) data
- Non-modeled capital investment
- System enhancements improvements
- Improvements on lower functional systems

## Conditions and Performance ReportUses of the C&P Report

- Statistical reference
- Information source for policy makers
- Legislative development
- Original $375 billion six-year funding level in House bill was derived by committee staff based on Cost to Improve scenarios in 2002 C&P Report
- $375 billion figure is _not_ actually found in report
- Report does not assign responsibility for future investment requirements to different levels of government
- Investment analyses in report are 20 year averages

## Our goal in the Office of Legislation and Strategic Planning is to efficiently provide accurate and timely information to Congress and FHWA leadership.

## Your data helps to make that possible.  Thanks, and keep up the good work!