Step 2: Goals & Objectives - Performance Standards

Performance Standards

Please note: Only cities and counties in metropolitan areas and Metro are required to follow this performance standards/targets setting process.

For cities and counties in metropolitan areas and Metro, OAR 660-012-0215 establishes requirements for transportation performance standards that cities and counties use to review comprehensive plan and land use regulation amendments provided in OAR 660-012-0060. If a city or county requires applicants to analyze transportation impacts as part of a development review in acknowledged local land use regulations, then that review shall include evaluation of the performance standards established in OAR 660-012-0215. This also applies to transportation performance standards that Metro uses to review functional plan amendments as provided in OAR 660-012-0060.

OAR 660-012-0215 outlines the performance standard requirements for cities, counties, ODOT, and Metro. Cities, counties, ODOT, and Metro shall adopt two or more transportation performance standards. At least one of the transportation performance standards shall support increasing transportation options and avoiding principal reliance on automobiles. The TSP shall clearly establish how to apply the multiple performance standards to a proposal that meets some, but not necessarily all, of the transportation performance standards. The transportation performance standards shall evaluate at least two of the following objectives for the transportation system, for any or all modes of transportation:

• Reducing climate pollution
• Equity
• Safety
• Network connectivity
• Accessibility
• Efficiency
• Reliability
• Mobility

Cities, counties, ODOT, and Metro shall establish the transportation performance standards to include these elements:

• Characteristics of the transportation system that will be measured, estimated, or projected, and the methods to calculate their performance.
• Thresholds to determine whether the measured, estimated, or projected performance meets the performance standard. Thresholds may vary by facility type, location, or other factors. Thresholds shall be set at the end of the planning period, time of development, or another time.
• Findings for how the performance standard supports meeting the targets for performance measures set as provided in OAR 660-012-0910 (see Performance Measures for Reporting for more information).

Resources

The table below illustrates which of the performance measures included in OAR 660-012-0905 have the most direct relationship to achieving the objectives shown in OAR 660-012-0215. Many of these measures have additional indirect relationships to the objectives; therefore, each jurisdiction shall document how the measures they have selected to utilize as transportation standards address at least two of the required objectives. It is worth noting that these performance measures can be supplemented with additional measures selected by a local jurisdiction.