Work Zone Performance Measures Derived From Connected Vehicle Data for Safety and Mobility Assessment

Author/Presenter: Sakhare, Rahul Suryakant; Desai, Jairaj; Overall, Myles; Mukai, Justin; Pava, Juan; McGregor, John; Bullock, Darcy M.
Abstract:

On 1 November 2024, the Federal Highway Administration issued a final rule updating the 23 CFR Part 630 Subpart J on Work Zone Safety and Mobility, detailing performance measures and reporting requirements. The rule suggests that state agencies should define formal performance measures that can be tracked consistently for the continuity of work zone program management across states. The objective is to help identify work zones needing mobility or safety improvements, as well as provide quantitative feedback on the best practices. The emergence of connected vehicle data over the past few years provides a scalable approach for agencies to calculate and monitor the performance measures defined in the CFR, covering, but not limited to, speed, travel time, queue length and duration, hard braking events and speed differentials. This paper describes techniques that use connected vehicle data to estimate different measures that map into the performance measures defined in this rule. A 2024 work zone in Illinois along I-24 was chosen to demonstrate the utility of the measures. The paper concludes with a discussion of ongoing work applying these derived measures to 101 work zones across 9 states in 2025 to demonstrate scalability.