The 8th installment of the FHWA/AASHTO TAM Webinar series covered transportation agency practices in visualizing data for telling a story and supporting decision-making. Topics included visualization strategies, techniques and leading practices for various audiences and purposes.

This webinar reviews the current performance measures and national performance goals to understand how states are using them in their decision-making and how the national government is using them to tell a story about the infrastructure network. The webinar's presenters are as follows:

· Hyun-A Park and Lori Richter, Spy Pond Partners
· Pete Stephanos, FHWA
· Scott Zainhofsky, North Dakota DOT
· Andrew Ludasi, New Jersey DOT
· Deanna Belden, Minnesota DOT
· Karen Miller, Missouri DOT
· Tim Henkel, Minnesota DOT

The TPM Webinar series presents best practices and guidance for practitioners in transportation performance management. Their topics cover everything from communication to data management. These webinars are sponsored by the TPM Pooled Fund with support from AASHTO CPBM Leadership and FHWA.

This webinar addresses emerging TPM priorities and incorporate transportation performance topics such as climate change, public health, equity, and active transportation measures. The webinar's presenters are as follows:

· Stephanie Pollack, FHWA
· Roger Millar, Washington State DOT
· Toks Omishakin, Caltrans
· Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Minnesota DOT
· Shawn Wilson, Louisiana DOTD

The TPM Webinar series presents best practices and guidance for practitioners in transportation performance management. Their topics cover everything from communication to data management. These webinars are sponsored by the TPM Pooled Fund with support from AASHTO CPBM Leadership and FHWA.

This webinar covers transportation agency management of system performance management, with a focus on accessibility. Presentations will examine how accessibility relates to TPM and PBPP, FHWA accessibility resources, research and case examples, as well as state-based accessibility studies, dashboards and use of state DOT accessibility tools.

This webinar highlights communication strategies, resources and emerging practices for supporting TPM. Presentations discuss agencies’ efforts in this area, including communication of state, regional and federal priorities, performance visualization and effective practices for telling the story about performance progress.

This webinar focuses on transportation agency target setting for federal PM3 CMAQ measures. Presentations address decision analysis methods for setting targets, making CMAQ targets meaningful to the public, and target setting and related planning and programming challenges.

Keith Miller (NJTPA) provided links to supplement his presentation, which help explain his agency's example “family” for the PHED measure. Click here to visit the NJTPA's Performance Measures page and click here to watch the page's accompanying YouTube video.

This webinar covers transportation agency target setting for federal PM3 system performance and reliability, including policy, planning and performance considerations related to target setting. Presentations address data gaps, modeling and forecasting for system performance targets, and moving the needle on the national system.

This webinar focuses on state target setting for federal PM2 infrastructure condition measures. This webinar covers specific target setting issues related to pavements and bridges, including data considerations, collaboration and coordination with partner agencies and aligning TPM projections and agency plan goals.

This webinar is a deep dive into state target setting approaches for federal requirements for safety performance measures. Topics include a review of the safety report card results, and the impact of external factors and data lags on safety target setting.

This webinar reviews state target setting approaches and lessons learned leading up to the mid-performance period progress report. Topics covered include target setting in the face of uncertainty and data gaps, coordinating and collaborating on target setting and improving forecasting approaches.

The inaugural webinar of the TPM Webinar Series was held Wednesday, May 20, 2020 from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT. The session featured presentations of TPM best practices at transportation agencies, drawn from the TPM peer exchange that was held in St. Paul, MN on November 14-15, 2019.

Webinar Presentations and Speakers:

• Agency Resource Allocation for Performance-Based Planning and Programming – Karen Miller, Missouri DOT
• Maximizing Efficiency through Predictive Tools – Ryan Granger, Texas DOT
• Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Federal TPM into a Mature Performance Managements System – Deanna Belden, Minnesota DOT
• Aligning Enterprise Information Management, Asset Management, Performance Management and Risk Management within a Strategic Planning Process – Kelly Travelbee, Michigan DOT