Highway performance monitoring system strategic reassessment

447332481997PDFTech ReportFHWA-PL-98/011Highway operationsTechnology assessmentDatabasesMonitoringAir poBridgesData collectionDriver licensingFederal governmentFinancingGeographic Information SystemsPerformance evaluationPublic relationsRegional planningState governmentTraffic monitoringTraffic safetyTransportation managementUnited StatesUnited States. Federal Highway AdministrationPeyrebrune, Henry L.United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Information ManagementNTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATIONNTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLSFederal Highway AdministrationThis report documents the results of a Federal Highway ADministration (FHWA) study of the agency's Highqay Performance Monitoring System (HPMS). The purpose of this study was to assist FHWA in conducting a comprehensive review of the HPMS, designed to result in recommendations as to the future form and direction that this major FHWA data system shoudl take. The study report represents a culmination of several serial activities including the identification and assessment of the impacts of the HPMS on FHWa, its State and other governmental partners, and the many and varies HPMS customers, the results of an extensive outreach program that was capped by a national HPMS workshop held in June 1997; and the subsequent assimilation of these inputs into a set of recommendations to the FHWA