The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest update to its conditions and performance report series. The biennial report to Congress provides an appraisal of the physical conditions, operational performance, and financing mechanisms of highways, bridges, and transit systems based on the current state of these systems and on the projected future state of these systems under a set of alternative future investment scenarios.
The main body of the report is organized into three major sections:
- Part I, Description of Current System, includes the core retrospective analyses in the report, including chapters on household travel, system characteristics, system conditions, operational performance, safety, and finance.
- Part II, Investment/Performance Analysis, includes the core prospective analyses of the report, including projections of future highway, bridge, and transit capital investment under certain defined scenarios. This section also explores how these scenarios would be affected by changing the assumptions about travel growth, financing mechanisms, and other key variables.
- Part III, Sustainable Transportation Systems, includes a set of three new chapters exploring sustainability, climate change adaptation, and livability.
The report also contains four technical appendices.