The NJTPA has updated its dashboard of regional performance measures, providing insights into trends affecting transportation in seven areas: access mobility, safety, reliability, competitiveness, environment, community and infrastructure condition. The dashboard and facts sheets related to the measures are at NJTPA.org/RegionalPerformance.
The regional measures in the dashboard complement an array of national measures and targets that the NJTPA monitors in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and other partners. The measures are used to chart progress toward the goals in the NJTPA’s Long Range Transportation Plan, support investment decision making, and inform regional stakeholders and the public.
Among insights from the measures in the dashboard:
- During the pandemic, roadway travel time reliability and bus on-time performance improved with the dramatic reductions in travel but more recently returned toward prior levels. Rail on-time performance has fluctuated but generally remained above 90 percent.
- Roadway safety has worsened, with particularly troubling recent increases in overall fatalities along with increases in pedestrian and bicycle fatalities and serious injuries.
- Transit ridership dropped dramatically with the pandemic. Bus ridership is again close to pre-pandemic levels while rail ridership has returned more slowly.
- The percentage of people working from home went from 5 percent in 2019 to over 14 percent in 2023.
- Percentage of jobs within walking distance of transit is higher and has been increasing in recent years yet many households are far from transit, limiting residents' ability to take advantage of this job access.