Developing a Guideline for Setting Targets for National Performance Management Measures to Assess Performance of the National Highway System in South Carolina

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for establishing targets for national system performance measures for reliability. The paper outlines step-by-step procedures followed using the National Performance Management Research Data Set and provides a possible range of estimates for future years’ targets for South Carolina highways. This paper focuses only on the percentage of person-miles traveled on both Interstate and non-Interstate national highway system. The framework presented in this paper is reproducible for other state Departments of Transportation, and accounts for construction projects that might influence the future predicted target number(s).