Draft Goals, Performance Factors, Objectives and Measures
Long-Range Goal
Goal 1: Provide a
safe, secure, and
integrated
transportation system
that reflects different
needs of the
Commonwealth.
Performance
Factor
1.1 Safety
1.2 Security
August 13, 2003
Long-Range Performance Performance Measures
Objectives
a. Improve safety for system a.Significant reduction
users and operators within
in crashes and/or
the system and at mode
incidents
origins/destinations (e.g.,
improve safety at at-grade
crossings, improve bicycle
and pedestrian safety,
correct sub-standard
(safety) designs and other
geometric/pathway (e.g.,
runway obstructions,
channel depth, bridge
clearance, etc.)
deficiencies, and other)
a. Provide strategic and/or
a.Yes/no
emergency transportation
b. Yes/no
infrastructure/facilities/
communications
b. Provide significant
improvement to the
security of transportation
facilities or the users of
transportation services
Data Sources
a. DMV, NTSB, FAA,
VDOT databases
a. Planner’s analysis
b. Planner’s analysis
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Long-Range Goal
Goal 2: Through
technology and more
efficient operations,
preserve and manage
the existing
transportation system.
Performance
Factor
2.1 Preservation
2.2 Management
Goal 3: Facilitate the
efficient movement of
people and goods and
expand choices and
improve
interconnectivity of all
transportation modes.
August 13, 2003
3.1 Mobility for
All
Long-Range Performance
Objectives
a. Maintain current
transportation
infrastructure and services
b. Reduce the negative
impact of incompatible
land uses by protecting
investment of state and
federal transportation
resources
a. Encourage access
management
b. Maximize system
utilization
c. Increase travel time
reliability
d. Reduce transfer time
between modes
a. Reduce congestion
b. Provide mode/route
choice for all people and
goods
c. Increase capacity for the
movement of people and
goods
Performance Measures
Data Sources
a.Reduction in longterm capital cost;
critical need
addressed
b. Consistency with
local comprehensive
plan, MPO plan, or
other regional plan
a. Planner’s analysis
b. Modal agency
programs
a.Yes/no
b. Number of people or
tons of freight moved
per hour/per mile,
capacity of system
c.Yes/no
d. Yes/no
a. Planner’s analysis
b. SPS, VPA
c. Planner’s analysis
d. Planner’s analysis
a. Volume to capacity
(V/C) ratio; level of
service (LOS); travel
time
b. Number of modes
available
c. Tons of freight
moved, twenty-foot
equivalent unit
(TEUs); person trips
a. SPS; VDRPT
ridership and rail
usage data; FAA
b. Planner’s analysis
c. VPA; planner’s
analysis
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Long-Range Goal
Performance
Factor
3.2 Accessibility
for All
Long-Range Performance
Objectives
a. Improve access to major
activity centers
b. Improve accessibility of
transportation services or
facilities
3.3 System
Connectivity
a. Provide seamless
connectivity between
modes
b. Provide interconnected
networks that facilitate the
“complete journey” (e.g.,
origin to destination and
all connections between)
a. Provide transportation
services, facilities, and
information that improve
predictability and
reliability
3.4 Reliability
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Performance Measures
Data Sources
a. Number of modes
serving activity
center; frequency of
service; barriers
removed
b. Number of mode
choices for people
and goods in
corridor; cost per trip;
cost per ton mile
a. Transfer time
between the modes;
travel time to
mainline/hub of
network; number
modal connections
b. System continuity
a. Planner’s analysis
b. Planner’s analysis
a. On-time performance
of modes; travel time
variability
a. Planner’s analysis
a. Planner’s analysis
b. Planner’s analysis
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Long-Range Goal
Goal 4: Improve
Virginia’s economic
vitality and provide
access to economic
opportunities for all
Virginians.
Performance
Factor
4.1 Statewide
Economic
Vitality
4.2 Consistency
with Local and
Regional Goals
August 13, 2003
Long-Range Performance
Objectives
a. Improve connectivity of
the workforce to
employment opoprtunities
b. Improve connectivity of
goods to markets
c. Improve connectivity of
people to goods and
services (including
recreation, tourism,
cultural resources, and
markets)
a. Coordinate transportation
planning and
implementation with local
land use planning and
economic development
goals
b. Support efficient use of
current and future
transportation
infrastructure investments
Performance Measures
Data Sources
a. Yes/no
b. Yes/no
c. Yes/no
a. Planner’s analysis
b. Planner’s analysis
c. Planners’s analysis
a. Project is included as
part of a regional or
other long-range
plan; compatibility
with State, PDC,
MPO, local, and/or
transportation
provider plans
b. Project is supported
by local land use
planning, zoning, and
economic
development goals;
compatibility with
adjacent land uses
and zoning
a. Planner’s analysis
b. Planner’s analysis;
local plans
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Long-Range Goal
Goal 5: Improve the
quality of life for all
Virginians and the
coordination of
transportation, land
use, and economic
development planning
activities.
August 13, 2003
Performance
Factor
5.1 Natural,
Cultural, and
Historic Resource
Conservation
Long-Range Performance Performance Measures
Objectives
a. Sustain and improve air
a. Project is air-quality
quality
neutral or positive;
b. Sustain and improve water
project is in a
quality
conforming longc. Preserve Virginia’s rich
range plan and
cultural and historic
program, if
resources
applicable
d. Practice environmental
b. Compliance witb
stewardship
Chesapeake Bay
2000 Agreement
and/or other
applicable water
quality regulations
c. Degree to which
project increases
availability,
awareness, or
protection of cultural
and/or historic
resources
d. Project exceeds
requirements for
protected ecosystems,
habitats, species, etc.
Data Sources
a. Nonattainment/
maintenance area
long-range plan and
program;
environmental
documents
b. Planner’s analysis;
environmental
documents
c. Planner’s analysis;
environmental
documents
d. Planner’s analysis;
environmental
documents
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Long-Range Goal
Goal 6. Improve
program delivery.
August 13, 2003
Performance
Factor
5.2 Community
Character
6.1 Fiscal
Responsibility
Long-Range Performance
Objectives
a. Ensure that transportation
facilities and services are
compatible with the
communities they serve
b. Ensure that transportation
infrastructure and services
are commensurate with
the facilities they serve
a. Leverage opportunities
between modes
b. Maximize benefit of
investment
c. Minimize long-term
maintenance cost (i.e.,
life-cycle cost)
d. Maximize use of non-state
funds (e.g., federal,
overmatch, Public/Private
Transportation Act
(PPTA), user fees, etc.)
e. Minimize level of
investment risk
f. Coordinate completion/
implementation schedules
and funding of
interdependent
multimodal projects
Performance Measures
Data Sources
a. Consistency with
community character;
reduction in noise
and light pollution
b. Consistency with
facility design and
purpose
a. Planner’s analysis
b. Planner’s analysis
a. Number of modes
made compatible
b. Cost benefit analysis
c. Anticipated life-cycle
costs
d. Percentage of nonstate funds; funding
availability
e. Number of purposes
project serves
f. Alignment of MIN
component schedules
and funding; project
readiness
a. Planner’s analysis
b. Planner’s analysis
c. Planner’s analysis
d. Modal agency plans
and programs
e. Modal agency plans
and programs
f. Modal agency plans
and programs
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