Accessibility and Mobility Strategy Synthesis

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1-Establish Objectives and Performance Measures

Objectives define what the region is trying to achieve regarding accessibility and mobility and provide the basis for multimodal performance measures used to identify locations with issues or needs and to assess their magnitude. The Objectives and Performance Measures report identifies three overarching objectives, supported by five additional objectives and a series of performance measures.

The eight objectives, as summarized in the graphic, identify outcomes that the region wishes to achieve in relation to accessibility and mobility, in support of the region’s overall planning goals. They emphasize a focus on the movement of people and goods, not on moving vehicles or simply addressing congestion.

Eight Objectives in three groups--A) OVERARCHING OBJECTIVES: 1) Improve accessibility to destinations; 2) Ensure equitable access for all; 3) Enhance reliability of travel for all modes; B) TRAVEL CHOICES FOCUSED OBJECTIVES: 4) Ensure alternatives to driving alone area supported; 5) Enhance usability of public transit; 6) Increase viability of walking, biking, and other micromobility options; C) FREIGHT AND FACILITY FOCUSED OBJECTIVES: 7) Optimize freight movement, sensitive to local context; 8) Address bottlenecks, excessive delay, optimizing existing roadway capacity

The report also identifies a core set of performance measures, along with their data sources and analysis methodologies. Some measures rely on data from sources such as the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), New Jersey Transit (NJ TRANSIT), the Regional Integrated Transportation Information Systems (RITIS), and the National Performance Management Research Data Set (NPMRDS), while others rely on calculations using several data sources.