Highway Performance
Monitoring System (HPMS)

The Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) is a federal program developed in 1978 as a continuing database to replace special biennial condition studies that had been conducted by the States since 1965. The HPMS is a national level highway information system that includes data on the extent, condition, performance, use, and operating characteristics of the Nation's highways. It is a cooperative effort among state highway agencies, local governments, and metropolitan planning organizations to collect Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) specified data including traffic counts for sample sections of roadways.

HPMS benefits southwestern Pennsylvania by:

• performing traffic counts
• providing data for apportionment of federal funds to the states
• providing justification for developing legislative initiatives to support increases in federal aid funding and the development of the National Highway System (NHS)
• serving as a data source for various FHWA and state publications
  • Highway Statistics
  • Our Nation's Highways
  • The Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions and Performance (the biennial reports to Congress mandated in 1965)
• documenting the condition and needs of our highway system

For more information on the Highway Performance Monitoring System or traffic counts, contact Carolyn Carney at (412) 391-5590 x303 or e-mail ccarney@spcregion.org.

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