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FIGURE 5-3 Percent of Congestion by Time of Day: 2011

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SOURCE: Texas A&M University, Texas Transportation Institute, 2012 Urban Mobility Report (December 2012: full report with exhibits), Exhibit 5. Available at http://tti.tamu.edu/ as of October 2013.

BOX 5-B System Performance User’s v. Operator’s Perspectives

From the user’s standpoint, system performance is based on an individual trip. Travel time to work refers to the total number of minutes it normally takes a person to get from home to work each day, including time spent waiting for public transportation, picking up passengers in...

BOX 5-A MAP-21 Emphasis on Performance-Based Decision Making

“The statewide [metropolitan] transportation planning process shall provide for the establishment and use of a performance-based approach to transportation decision making to support the national goals…

support the economic vitality of the metropolitan area,...