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Performance Based Programs
Pete Rahn, Chair, ASC Performance Based Program Team
President, AASHTO
Director, Missouri DOT; and,
John Horsley, Executive Director ,AASHTO
October 20, 2008
Overview Recommendations
• The recommendations are from the Team Chairs, based
on work of Legislative teams, and have been approved
by the Authorization Steering Committee
• We believe major reform is needed in order to be
successful in securing increased federal funds
• There needs to be a continued strong federal role,
restoring historic federal share of 45% of highway and
transit capital funding, apportioning 90% of the overall
highway program to states, and limiting earmarks to no
more than 5% of the program
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I.1 Federal Purposes for the
Federal Programs
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Preservation
Interstate Commerce
Safety
Personal Mobility and Connectivity
Operations
Environment
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I.2 Refocus Program Structure on
Ten Objectives of National Interest
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Preservation
Freight/Economic Development
Safety
Congestion ( mobility and accessibility in rural and urban
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System Operations
Environment
Intercity Passenger Rail
Federal Lands
Research
National Defense
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I.3 Restructure the Highway Program and the
Transit Program to Meet National Objectives
• Highway Programs should be restructured
as shown in the next slides
• Transit Programs should be restructured
as shown in the transit recommendations
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I.3 (continued) Highway Program Structure
Recommendations
Highway Program
2015
Total
$75 billion
Preservation and Renewal Program
$28.4 billion
($9 billion)
($11 billion)
($8.4 billion)
Interstate Preservation
National Highway System Preservation
Bridge Preservation
Freight Program
$6.5 billion Apportioned to States
$3.5 billion Discretionary; funded
from outside Highway Trust Fund
Safety Program
$2.6 billion, plus NHTSA and
FMCSA funding
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I.3 (continued) Highway Program
Structure Recommendations
Highway Program
2015
Operations and Management
$3 billion
Transportation System
Improvement/ Congestion
Reduction Program
$11 billion
• Transportation enhancements continued
• Urban States: Funds distributed - 62.5%
Metro Areas; 37.5% statewide
connectivity
• Non-urban states: states decide
distribution
Environment Program:
Air Quality and Climate
Change
$3.4 billion
• Not less than 50% of funds Air Quality
• 50% for climate change initiatives
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I.4 Establish National Goals through which
National Goals Can be Achieved
 National goals should be established in six areas
including safety, preservation, congestion, system
operations, freight and environment. For safety,
the congress should enact the national goal of halving
fatalities in two decades.
 Authorization legislation should direct AASHTO in
consultation with APTA , the MPOs, and the U.S.
DOT to establish national performance goals for each
of the other five areas by two years after enactment .
 No rulemaking process would be required or desired,
with the exception of a conforming rulemaking to
accommodate the changes in statute.
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I.5 Develop a State Driven Performance
Management Approach
• Each state, with its MPOs and transit agencies,
adopts a planning and programming process to
focus federal funding on meeting national
performance goals.
• Each state will adopt state developed
performance targets for each of the six key
national goals.
• Changes to the eight planning factors to be goal
oriented objectives are recommended.
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I.6 State Measurements and
Reports
• Each state will be called on to develop a process to track
and report on performance results in each of the six key
national goal areas of safety, preservation, congestion,
system operations, freight/economic development, and
environment.
• AASHTO must recommend a process by which states
self-define targets that would work in their unique context
rather than have measures and targets imposed through
some other process including federal statute, regulation
or funding distribution.
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I.6 State Measurements and
Reports (Continued)
• Establish a Performance-Oriented Pilot Program,
similar to what USDOT has recently proposed for those
states and metropolitan areas that have established and
met performance measures and targets in the six
national goal areas that are acceptable to the USDOT.
• Regulatory relief and funding flexibility would be provided
in terms of planning requirements, conformity
requirements, 4(f) requirements, and engineering
oversight.
• All states are eligible
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