About
Mobility is the ease with which people and goods move throughout
their community, state, and world. Mobility is valuable because it provides
access to jobs, services and markets. Transportation's most essential
function is to provide mobility for people and goods. By measuring the
performance of mobility, we can better understand how to improve it.
User Orientation
Mobility performance measures are used to characterize the success of transportation, in terms of:
- Quantity of service (number of people served) - Collective user perspective, and measure of a program's success.
- Quality of service (degree of traveler satisfaction with the service provided) - Usually related to travel time.
- Accessibility of service (ease of engaging in activities) - Related to existence of service, and difficulty of using it.
- Utilization (how much of the available capacity is used) - Indication of whether the system is properly sized, matching supply to demand.
Together, the four concepts of quantity, quality, accessibility, and utilization provide a comprehensive picture of mobility to
individual users, the general public, and decision makers.
Application of Measures
Mobility performance measures are used in systems planning and metropolitan planning to identify
the location, scale and nature of transportation problems and needs to identify possible solutions
to these problems. The measures may be applied statewide, in an areawide analysis (e.g., the 7 largest
counties together), or by functional system (e.g., Florida Intrastate Highway System (FIHS)).
Metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) address many of the same issues at a metropolitan level.
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Products
Florida's Mobility Performance Measures Programs
Development of Mobility Performance Measures
Use of Mobility Performance Measures
Program Contacts
- Program Oversight - John H. Taylor, Manager, Transportation Statistics Office, (850) 414-4848, Fax: (850) 414-4878
- Analysis & Reporting -
Tina Hatcher, Transportation
Statistics Office, (850) 414-4706
- Measurement Development & Congestion Management -
Doug McLeod, Systems Planning Office, (850) 414-4932
- Level of Service & Bicycle/Pedestrian Measures -
Gina Bonyani, Systems Planning Office, (850) 414-4707
- Intergovernmental Reporting -
Brian Watts, Office of Policy Planning, (850) 414-4818
- Trends & Conditions Analysis -
Monica Zhong, Office of Policy Planning, (850) 414-4808
- Transit Measures - Diane Quigley, Transit Office, (850) 414-4520
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