The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) Data Reporting Federal Highway Administration September, 2009
2 Office of Highway Policy Information Data Programs Motor Fuel Highway Performance Monitoring System Traffic Monitoring Highway Finance Driver Licensing Motor Vehicle Registration National Household Travel Survey Toll Facilities
3 Accountability and Transparency “Every American will be able to hold Washington accountable for these decisions by going online to see how and where their tax dollars are being spent.” - President Barack Obama
4 ARRA Funds for Transportation Provides $48.1 billion for transportation, including: – $27.5 billion for highways – $8.4 billion for transit – $8.0 billion for high speed rail – $1.3 billion for Amtrak – $1.5 billion for National Surface Transportation Discretionary Grants
5 Appropriation for Highways- $27.5B Less Amount Allocated Before Apportionment $840M Transportation Enhancements – 3% Sub-Allocation for Areas Based on Population – 30% For Any Area of the State – 67% For Individual Urbanized Areas over 200,000 by % of Population For Areas with Population ≤ 200,000 For Areas with Population ≤ 5,000 Distribution of Highway Funds Remainder Apportioned to States $26.6B
6 Challenges Determining data needs – Statutory – OMB – Oversight Implementation – Tight schedule – Changing requirements – Non-sequential development
7 RADS - Recovery Act Data System Used for ARRA related: – Data submittal – Reports – Analysis – Reviews Independent system that interfaces with other data systems Recently released version 2.0
8 Data Model Conceptual Overview RADS - Data Integration, Analysis, & Reporting Other Data - Bid Tab EDA Finance Data Reports, Maps, and Charts Jobs, Awards & Project Information - Existing FHWA data - State reported data - New FHWA database - FHWA generated reports
9 Information Flow Diagram Collect, Compile, & Report FHWA HQ Contractor ALocal DContractor CLocal B Texas DOT Virginia DivisionTexas Division CongressOSTRecovery.gov Virginia DOT Compliance Review Review, Report, & Summarize Reporting Job Data Contractor DContractor B RADS 1201(c) 1609 State DOT 1512
10 Evolution of RADS
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