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ODOT to separate traffic fatalities and serious injuries into distinct measures; committee debates statewide vs. state-system reporting
Summary
Staff proposed reinstating separate key performance measures for traffic fatalities and serious injuries after staff found the two trends now diverge; members discussed whether to report statewide numbers or a state-system subset ODOT more directly controls.
Phil Case told the committee that traffic fatalities and serious injuries no longer trend together, so staff proposes splitting the combined measure into two KPMs to show divergent trends more clearly. "Because, again, the whole point of these key performance measures is to identify and highlight those things that are... trending," Case said.
Vice Chair Lee Beyer questioned whether a statewide measure unfairly implies ODOT controls all roads and asked for a state-system subset; Amanda Petes, Division Administrator for Policy Data and Analysis, said ODOT tracks and reports statewide crash data and that dashboards already show a state-system subset. "We track transportation safety and crash data for the entire state of Oregon," Petes said, and staff agreed they can present both statewide numbers and a state-system breakdown in the narrative to clarify what ODOT directly controls.
