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Understanding Performance Management

Performance management is the process of accountability and effectiveness that is measured against established goals or targets. Performance management helps guide State Transportation Agencies (STA) in critical decision making from planning through systems operations, including the agency’s own organizational performance.

Mission & Vision

The Committee on Performance-Based Management is dedicated to providing STAs the expertise and resources to support and help enhance performance and data-driven management practices and decision making and to create a results-driven environment that will promote organizational and system excellence. The Committee on Performance Based-Management will provide and communicate technical services and information; develop policy guidance and recommendations; facilitate communication practices; and support the professional development and capacity building of its members and others.

The committee shall be structured in a way to do the following:

1. Focus on how organizations make strategic decisions to deliver the transportation program to the public by examining how transportation organizations link these strategies with work systems and key processes and align resources to:
   1. improve project and program delivery;
   2. demonstrate progress toward desired performance targets such as safety, system capacity, congestion/freight movement, physical assets and other areas for all modes; and
   3. deploy management strategies.
2. Support STAs in how they improve the state of the practice in the deployment and usage of asset, organizational, risk, and system management tools, data collection, analysis techniques, and methods to assist in implementing management practices.
3. Assess the use of measurement and assessment to facilitate communication that increases transparency, accountability and enhances results.
4. Support members through the development of comparative information about organizational and systems management practices in established and emerging areas to facilitate shared learning and improve performance.
5. Explore national and international trends, successful practices, and research related to performance-based management in order to support the Board of Directors in influencing the development of federal policy, programs, regulations, and guidance.
6. Provide information and recommendations of how agencies best organize themselves and current performance management best practices (e.g., ISO, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.).

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Vision

“Shaping the Future of Transportation through Effective, Innovative and Inclusive Rulemaking and Policy Development”

Mission

“The mission of the AASHTO Policy and Rule-Making Work Group is to collaboratively and proactively develop or help refine performance-based management policies and rules that promote safe, efficient, sustainable, and innovative transportation systems across the United States.”

Roles and Responsibilities Overview

• Policy Development: develops and promotes guidelines and best practices that address various aspects of policy and rulemaking. These guidelines and best practices are often developed collaboratively with its members to ensure consensus and relevance.
• Rulemaking Participation: participates in the federal rulemaking process by providing input, comments, and recommendations on proposed regulations related to performance-based management. This ensures that state DOT’s perspectives and expertise are considered during the rulemaking process.
• Coordination and Collaboration: facilitates collaboration and information exchange among its members, federal agencies, and other stakeholders whenever national performance-based management policy issues are proposed, enacted, or revised. It serves as a platform for sharing insights, lessons learned, and innovative approaches to multimodal transportation challenges.
• Information Dissemination: disseminates information about policy developments, regulations, and best practices through publications, websites, newsletters, and other communication channels.
• Advocacy and Representation: acts as a unified voice for state departments of transportation (DOTs) when engaging with federal agencies, Congress, and other relevant stakeholders on matters of Performance Management. It advocates for multimodal transportation policies and funding that align with the needs and priorities of its member states.

Guiding Principles

• Safety and Accessibility: We are committed to ensuring that transportation is safe and accessible to all, regardless of age, ability, or location. Our policies and rules prioritize the protection of lives and the reduction of accidents and injuries on our roadways.
• Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility: We recognize the importance of sustainable transportation solutions. We aim to develop policies that reduce the environmental impact of transportation infrastructure, promote clean energy alternatives, and mitigate the effects of climate change.
• Efficiency and Innovation: We embrace technological advancements and strive to make transportation systems more efficient. Our policies encourage the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as autonomous vehicles, smart infrastructure, and data analytics to optimize transportation operations.
• Equity and Inclusion: We are dedicated to addressing disparities in transportation access and outcomes. Our policies focus on reducing transportation-related inequities, ensuring that all communities have fair access to transportation resources and opportunities.
• Collaborative Partnerships: We believe in the power of collaboration. We actively engage with state and federal agencies, and industry partners to develop well-informed policies that reflect diverse perspectives and needs.

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Welcome To The Joint Subcommittee On System Mobility And Emerging Technologies (SMET).

Leadership

The joint subcommittee is led by a chair, with support from a vice chair, as selected by AASHTO CPBM and CTSO standing committee chairs.

Chair: Daniela Bremmer (WSDOT), [email protected]

Vice-Chair: Vacant

AASHTO Liaison CTSO: Ali Loman

AASHTO Liaison CPBM: Anna McLaughlin, [email protected]

FHWA Liaison: Rich Taylor, [email protected]

Daniela Bremmer

Jay Styles

Mission

• SMET serves as the forum to share how state DOTs are managing system operation and system mobility and how performance is impacted due to current and emerging transportation technologies, operational strategies and connected environments
• SMET explores system and mobility related performance, data and analytical tools, performance communication, reporting approaches, research and related, private sector partnerships
• SMET examines the system impacts of current and emerging system management approaches such as Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) technology, Cooperative Automated Transportation (CAT) and Mobility on Demand (MOD) programs

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Work Plan

• The subcommittee chair, with support from the vice-chair and with input from the subcommittee members, will develop and update an annual work plan to guide the subcommittee’s activities.
• The work plan shall be approved by the CPBM and the CTSO standing committee chair.
• The subcommittee chair, with support from the vice-chair, shall be responsible for monitoring and regularly reporting to the CPBM and CTSO leadership groups on the status of the work plan.

The joint subcommittee formally fuses the related work of the AASHTO Standing Committees on Transportation System Operations (CTSO) and on Performance-Based Management (CPBM); with an informal, collaborative relationship with the Standing Committee on Data Management and Analytics (CDMA).

Leadership

Chair: Jean Wallace, Minnesota DOT Vice Chair: Nathan Lee, Utah DOT AASHTO Liaison: Matt Hardy, AASHTO FHWA Liaison: Daniel Fodera, FHWA

Purpose

Transportation resilience is the ability of a state transportation agency to plan, prepare, react, recover, and adapt to adverse events. Both the Committees on Performance-Based Management and Transportation System Security and Resilience address the topic of transportation resilience through a better understanding of how risk management techniques can be used to better support a resilience approach to managing the transportation system. Risk management is defined as the evaluation of the probability of positive or negative effects of uncertainty or variability on agency objectives and the ability of the agency to be more resilient. Risk management includes the cultures, processes, and structures that are directed toward the effective management of potential risks. The focus of this subcommittee is on the development, implementation, and use of tools, methods, and strategies by a state transportation agency in order to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate potential threats.

Goals

1. Serve as the forum to engage subcommittee members on the sharing of ideas and examples of how state transportation agencies are implementing risk management within their organizations.
2. Develop needed guidelines, guidance, training, and educational resources to facilitate the implementation of risk management approaches within a state transportation agency.
3. Research, develop, and disseminate tools and techniques associated with risk management such as risk analysis, vulnerability assessments, etc.