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represent disadvantaged and underrepresented groups. 

Shailen P. Bhatt, 

Administrator, Federal Highway 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2024–0001] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Reinstatement of a Previously 

Approved Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of request for 

reinstatement of a previously approved 

information collection. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA has forwarded the 

information collection request described 

in this notice to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval of a new (periodic) 

information collection. We published a 

Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 

public comment period on this 

information collection on October 18, 

2023. We are required to publish this 

notice in the Federal Register by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

February 8, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

0001 by any of the following methods: 

Website: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven Jessberger, (202) 366–5052/ 

steven.jessberger@dot.gov; Patrick 

Zhang, (202) 366–1941/patrick.zhang@

dot.gov, Department of Transportation, 

Federal Highway Administration, Office 

Highway Policy Information, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590. Office hours are from 7 a.m. to 

4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal Holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Travel Monitoring Analysis 

System. 

OMB Control #: 2125–0587. 

Background: The purpose of this 

document is to request OMB’s threeyear reinstatement for a previously 

approved information collection titled 

‘‘Travel Monitoring Analysis System 

(TMAS),’’ covered by OMB Control No. 

2125–0587. This information collection 

is due to expire on August 30, 2021. The 

Travel Monitoring Analysis System 

(TMAS) is the current system used to 

collect HVTIS information; therefore, 

the extension should now be titled 

Travel Monitoring Analysis System. 

Part A. Justification 

1. Circumstances That Make the 

Collection of Information Necessary 

23 U.S.C. 150 National Goals and 

Performance Management Measures 

requires that the U.S. DOT to establish 

a performance management system for 

its Federal-aid highway program. The 

Federal Highway Administration 

(FHWA), U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT) promulgated the 

performance management via 23 CFR 

part 490: National Performance 

Management Measures. Traffic data, 

including volume (# of vehicles and 

travelers), class (types of vehicles), 

weight (weight of vehicles), and travel 

time (speed), are parameters the 

performance management program 

relies upon. 

The FHWA is planning to continue to 

collect these traffic data through the 

TMAS system. To carry out the data 

collection, the FHWA will request that 

State Departments of Transportations 

(SDOTs) provide traffic volume, vehicle 

classification, vehicle speed, vehicle 

weight data, and nonmotorized data, 

which they collect as part of their traffic 

monitoring programs. 

In addition, 23 CFR 1.5 and 49 CFR 

1.48 provide the Federal Highway 

Administrator with authority to request 

such information deemed necessary to 

administer the Federal-aid highway 

program. Traffic data are used for 

assessing highway system performance 

under FHWA’s strategic planning and 

performance reporting process in 

accordance with the requirement of the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA, Sections 3 and 4). 

Finally, both the 23 U.S.C. 503 and 

the 23 CFR 420.105(b) require States to 

provide data that support FHWA’s 

responsibilities carrying out the Federalaid highway program to Congress and 

the public. 

The data to be collected will continue 

to be used by the FHWA and other DOT 

agencies to (a) manage its Federal-aid 

highway program through the 

performance management mechanism, 

(b) evaluate changes in vehicular and 

nonmotorized travel to assess impacts 

on highway safety, (c) analyze the role 

of travel in economic development and 

productivity, (d) assess impacts from 

truck travel on infrastructure demands, 

and (e) maintain and improve our 

Nation’s mobility while protecting the 

human and natural environment. 

2. How, by Whom, and for What 

Purpose Is the Information Used 

The data submitted through TMAS 

will provide the amount and nature of 

vehicular travel at the national, regional, 

and state levels. The data also provide 

information on how vehicular travel 

pattern varies by hour of the day, day 

of the week, the month of the year, and 

year to year. Data submitted under the 

TMAS program are essential to the 

FHWA and the U.S. DOT in 

determining: 

• The effectiveness of current highway 

programs in supporting travel 

demands, safety improvement, and 

travel reliability 

• The potential of possible 

modifications to the Federal-aid 

highway program, and 

• The need for new programs 

• The adequacy of the U.S. DOT 

Strategic Goals in areas of: 

i. Safety exposures: providing 

accurate and detailed exposure 

information related to travel and 

especially the roles of different vehicles 

in the same traffic stream 

ii. Mobility: providing data on the 

relative usage of system capacity by 

various vehicles by time of day and the 

associated share of congestion that may 

be implicit in such travel 

iii. Productivity: providing data 

necessary to estimate the tonnage of 

goods and number of people being 

moved by time of day, and season of the 

year over the various highway systems 

and 

iv. Human and Natural Environment: 

providing data needed for the highway 

noise and air quality effect assessments. 

State highway agencies use the traffic 

data for project and program level 

applications such as geometric design, 

pavement design, safety analysis, 

overweight and oversize vehicle 

permitting, designating truck routes, 

estimating trends in freight movement, 

highway noise abatement needs 

assessment. 


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In addition to the usage by the Federal 

and State governmental agencies, 

institutions of higher learning, industry, 

consultants, professional organizations, 

and the public are using the data for 

research and education, business 

development, and general information. 

3. Extent of Automated Information 

Collection 

All data for the TMAS will be 

submitted electronically to the FHWA 

by all State highway and some local 

agencies, including the District of 

Columbia and Puerto Rico Departments 

of Transportation. Reliance on 

electronic reporting is responsive to 

limited staff resources at both the local, 

State and Federal levels. With the 

unlimited data upload file size, online 

electronic submission reduces burden to 

all respondents. 

The collected data will be further 

inserted into a Geographical Information 

System by the FHWA in order to 

support the analysis of point-specific 

vehicle travel data on a network basis. 

This is expected to allow: 

• Correlation of pavement loadings 

generated by vehicles to data in other 

FHWA systems that report pavement 

condition; 

• Major truck and interregional 

passenger corridors will be more readily 

identifiable among the links comprising 

the Nation’s highway network, and; 

• Weather, natural disaster and other 

geographically related phenomena can 

be more readily related to associated 

changes in travel patterns 

All data summarization, processing, 

and editing are fully automated. The 

TMAS is supported by various software 

browsers for use by the local, States and 

FHWA staff in order to report, edit and 

summarize the collected data. 

Respondents: State Departments of 

Transportation Agencies and 

Metropolitan Planning Organizations 

and Local Agencies responsible for 

submitting traffic data (both motorized 

and micromobility) to FHWA. 

Frequency: All data for the TMAS will 

be submitted electronically monthly to 

the FHWA by all State highway and 

some local agencies, including the 

District of Columbia and Puerto Rico 

Departments of Transportation. Reliance 

on electronic reporting is responsive to 

limited staff resources at both the local, 

State and Federal levels. With the 

unlimited data upload file size, online 

electronic submission reduces burden to 

all respondents. 

The collected data will be further 

inserted into a Geographical Information 

System by the FHWA in order to 

support the analysis of point-specific 

vehicle travel data on a network basis. 

This is expected to allow: 

• Correlation of pavement loadings 

generated by vehicles to data in other 

FHWA systems that report pavement 

condition; 

• Major truck and interregional 

passenger corridors will be more readily 

identifiable among the links comprising 

the Nation’s highway network, and; 

• Weather, natural disaster and other 

geographically related phenomena can 

be more readily related to associated 

changes in travel patterns 

All data summarization, processing, 

and editing are fully automated. The 

TMAS is supported by various software 

browsers for use by the local, States and 

FHWA staff in order to report, edit and 

summarize the collected data. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: FHWA estimates that the 

average State DOT operates 60 

continuous vehicle classification 

installations, and 15 weigh-in-motion 

sites. State highway agencies have 

established their Traffic Monitoring 

System (TMS) under the Intermodal 

Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, 

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st 

Century, and the Safe, Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 

Act: A Legacy for Users. The data 

collection burden relevant for this 

notice is the additional burden for each 

State to provide a copy of its traffic data 

per data formats specified in the FHWA 

Traffic Monitoring Guide. Automation 

and online tools continue to be 

developed and improved in support of 

the TMAS and the capability now exists 

for online submission and validation of 

volume, speed, classification and weight 

data. The combined burden for the 

monthly report is estimated to be 50 

hours per respondent. The estimated 

total burden for all States, the District of 

Columbia, and Puerto Rico are 2,600 

hours. 

Salary costs associated with burden 

hours are estimated at an average of 

$35.50 per hour for the technical 

specialists dealing with the TMAS data 

types. The hourly rate is taken from 

Table 452 of the 2007 Statistical 

Abstract of the United States Census 

Bureau. These costs are calculated as 

follows: $35.50 × 2,600 hours = $92,300. 

ESTIMATED TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Data type 

Reportings 

per year 

per site 

Average 

hours per 

response 

Hours per 

year per 

state 

Site Description ............................................................................................................................ 1 2 2 

Vehicle Classification ................................................................................................................... 12 1 12 

Vehicle Speed .............................................................................................................................. 12 1 12 

Vehicle Weight ............................................................................................................................. 12 1 12 

Total Volume ................................................................................................................................ 12 0.5 6 

Total Nonmotorized Volume ........................................................................................................ 12 0.5 6 

Total Hours per State per Year ............................................................................................ ........................ ........................ 50 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the FHWA’s performance; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burdens; (3) ways for the FHWA to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the collected information; and 

(4) ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

The agency will summarize and/or 

include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this information 

collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued On: January 4, 2024. 

Jazmyne Lewis, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00213 Filed 1–8–24; 8:45 am] 

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