The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is releasing draft targets for the Performance Measures: Pavement, Bridge, System Reliability, and Truck Travel Time. These are the final 5 of the 12 federally required performance measures under Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act – FAST Act, which are applicable to the MPO. These performance measures are required to be measured and have targets set by each MPO and State Department of Transportation (DOT) across the nation. After targets are set each MPO and State DOT will annually report on progress made achieving their targets.
The 15-day public comment period for these draft targets starts on September 7, 2018 and will end on September 22, 2018.
These targets will come before the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Policy Board for approval on October 28, 2018. Following MPO Policy Board approval these targets will be incorporated into Transportation 2040 Appendix F and the FFY19 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for performance based planning. The five safety and two transit measures were previously included in Transportation 2040 and the TIP.
The draft targets can be accessed online at: www.lawrenceks.org/mpo/t2040.
Written comments may be emailed to amyers@lawrenceks.org or mailed to Ashley Myers at the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Office, PO Box 708, Lawrence, KS 66044-0708.