Peer Exchange Workshop on the "Perfect World of Measuring Congestion"
Workshop Summary Report

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES

The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Operations Performance Measurement Program (https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/perf_measurement) sponsored a Peer Exchange Workshop titled “the Perfect World of Measuring Congestion” held in Washington, D.C. on December 17-18, 2013. The focus of the workshop was to identify the “perfect world” of measuring congestion from an operations perspective, as well as possible research and implementation efforts that could be undertaken in the next five years by FHWA to get there. The workshop agenda and a list of participants are included in Appendix A and B, respectively.

The results of the workshop are being used to provide input to FHWA's Operations Performance Measures and Management Program five-year Road Map. The Road Map will include research and implementation projects that FHWA could fund over the next five years as well as related projects that other groups (other FHWA programs, TRB, etc.) might want to undertake.

In an effort to stimulate discussion at the workshop, four brief white papers were prepared and distributed prior to the workshop. These white papers are included in Appendix C.