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Last updated: 03/28/2024

The Federal Highways Administration, New Mexico Department of Transportation, and the Santa Fe MPO define Transportation Performance Management (TPM) as a strategic approach that uses system information to make investment and policy decisions to achieve national performance goals. In short, Transportation Performance Management:

Is systematically applied, a regular ongoing process.
Provides key information to help decision makers allowing them to understand the consequences of investment decisions across transportation assets or modes.
Improving communications between decision-makers, stakeholders and the traveling public.
Ensuring targets and measures are developed in cooperative partnerships and based on data and objective information.

Safety Performance Management (PM1)

Targets set annually

Safety Performance Management (Safety PM) is part of the overall Transportation Performance Management (TPM) program.

The Safety PM Final Rule establishes five performance measures as the five-year rolling averages to include:

Number of Fatalities
Rate of Fatalities per 100 million Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)
Number of Serious Injuries
Rate of Serious Injuries per 100 million VMT
Number of Non-motorized Fatalities and Non-motorized Serious Injuries

The Safety PM Final Rule also establishes the process for State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to establish and report their safety targets, and the process that FHWA will use to assess whether State DOTs have met or made significant progress toward meeting their safety targets.

Previously annually set, these targets became 3 year targets in February 2024

Read the 2024 report

Pavement & Bridge Condition Measures (PM2)

Targets set for 2 and 4 years

Relates to conditions of pavement and bridges on the National Highway System (NHS). The six measures are:

Percentage of Interstate pavements on the NHS in Good Condition
Percentage of Interstate pavements on the NHS in Poor Condition
Percentage of non-Interstate pavements on the NHS in Good Condition
Percentage of non-Interstate pavements on the NHS in Poor Condition
Percentage of bridges on the NHS in Good condition
Percentage of bridges on the NHS in Poor Condition

The documents below include self-certifications of adoption, pertinent performance reports, and targets.

See the State Map

Maintained by NMDOT, see the state bridge condition map

System Performance, Freight, and CMAQ Measures (PM3)

Targets set for 2 and 4 years

The PM3 measures area as follows:

Two measures to assess system performance:
- Percentage of person-miles traveled on the Interstate System that are reliable
- Percentage of person-miles traveled on the non-interstate National Highway System (NHS) that are reliable
One measure to assess Freight Movement:
- Truck Travel Time Reliability (TTTR) Index
Three measures to assess the CMAQ Program:
- Annual Hours of peak-hour excessive delay per capita – NM is not required to set a target for this measure
- Percent of Non-Single Occupancy Vehicle (SOV) travel – NM is not required to set a target for this measure
- On-Road Mobile Source Emissions Reduction – NM is in non-attainment for Particulate Matter (PM) 10 in one area, covered by El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization (EPMPO)

Transportation Performance Management