Effective April 14, 2016, the Federal Highway Administration established five highway safety performance measures (23 CFR Part 490, Subpart B) to carry out the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP). The HSIP is a federal-aid funding program intended to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. The five performance measures are listed in Table 1, below.
Safety performance targets are established annually by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for each performance measure. The Corpus Christi MPO either: 1) establishes its numerical targets for each performance measure, or 2) formally agree to support the TxDOT safety performance measures targets.
The Corpus Christi MPO Transportation Policy Committee adopted a resolution to support TxDOT’s statewide FY 2022 Safety Performance Targets (PM1) on January 6, 2022.
Table 1: TxDOT Statewide Established PM1 Performance Measures and Targets
Performance Measures | 2018* | 2019* | 2020* | 2021** | 2022** | 2022*** |
Number of Fatalities | 3,648 | 3,615 | 3,896 | 3,384 | 3,272 | 3,563 |
Rate of Fatalities per 100 million VMT | 1.29 | 1.25 | 1.33 | 1.24 | 1.23 | 1.27 |
Number of Serious Injuries | 14,975 | 15,855 | 14,656 | 18,835 | 19,065 | 16,677 |
Rate of Serious Injuries per 100 million VMT | 5.31 | 5.50 | 5.00 | 6.51 | 6.47 | 5.76 |
Number of Non-Motorized Fatalities and Serious Injuries | 2,104 | 2,291 | 2,238 | 2,560 | 2,642 | 2,367 |
*Actual Data, **Target Data, ***Target as a 5-Year Average. Vehicle Miles Traveled = VMT Source: Texas FY 2022 Highway Safety Plan (HSP). |
The Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority (CCRTA) is the operator of public transportation in Nueces County, Texas.
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act requires the state DOTs to establish performance targets for Pavement and Bridge Condition Measures (PM2) and System Performance and Freight (PM3).
The Corpus Christi MPO Transportation Policy Committee adopted a resolution to support TxDOT's statewide Pavement and Bridge Condition Measures (PM2) and System Performance and Freight (PM3) targets on November 1, 2018.
Table 2: TxDOT Statewide Established PM2 Performance Targets
Performance Measures | Baseline | 2020 Target | 2022 Target |
Pavement Condition | |||
Percentage of Interstate Highway pavement in “Good” condition | -- | -- | 66.4% |
Percentage of Interstate Highway pavement in “Poor” condition | -- | -- | 0.3% |
Percentage of non-Interstate Highway NHS pavement in “Good” condition | 54.4% | 52.0% | 52.3% |
Percentage of non-Interstate Highway NHS pavement in “Poor” condition | 14.0% | 14.3% | 14.3% |
Bridge Condition | |||
Percentage of NHS bridge deck area in “Good” condition | 50.7% | 50.6% | 50.4% |
Percentage of NHS bridge deck area in “Poor” condition | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.8% |
Table 3: TxDOT Statewide Established PM3 Performance Targets
Performance Measures | Baseline | 2020 Target | 2022 Target |
System Performance | |||
Travel Time Reliability Index on Interstate Highway | 79.5% | 61.2% | 56.6% |
Travel Time Reliability Index on non-Interstate Highway | -- | -- | 50.0% |
Freight | |||
Truck Travel Time Reliability Index | 1.40% | 1.70% | 1.79% |