CDOT Performance Data Business Plan - Cambridge Systematics

CDOT Performance Data Business Plan
Executive Summary
Like many transportation agencies, the Colorado Department of Transportation
(CDOT) collects, maintains, and reports on a wide variety of internal and
external performance areas. CDOT has been collecting and using performance
measures data to support long-range planning, policy, and investment analysis
since the early 2000s. Several internal offices are directly involved with the
collection of data and the maintenance of systems to store and analyze the
information to support the measures. CDOT performance data is reported
regularly (both internally and externally). These include the Annual
Performance Report; Annual Report; Transportation Deficit Report; Strategic
Plan; FHWA-CDOT Stewardship Agreement; and CDOT Fact Book. Several
internal offices also report on various indicators including regions, bridge office,
contracts and market analysis, project development, and maintenance. In
addition, there are several related initiatives occurring within CDOT that are
aimed at improving access to data and information.
CDOT, like many other state DOTs, realizes that the highway construction era is
changing, and the Department’s focus needs to shift from increasing capacity to
managing and operating the existing system. Managing and operating the system
requires detailed information about current and past performance, as well as
predictions of future performance. Mobility, safety, asset management, and data
collection/management are critical to the success of any CDOT performance-based
planning process.
The overall objective for this project was to develop a Performance Data Business
Plan for CDOT. The report comes at an optimum time for CDOT to get ready for
potentially changing Federal requirements and to support enhanced data
management, performance reporting and decision-making within the agency. The
project was sponsored by the Performance and Policy Analysis Unit within
CDOT’s Division of Transportation Development. This report documents the
results of this effort. It recommends the following nine core performance
measures:
1. Number of fatalities;
2. Bridge condition;
3. Pavement condition;
4. Roadside condition;
5. Snow and ice control;
6. Roadway congestion;
7. On time construction;
8. On budget construction; and
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