Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) - Geospatial Data part 1

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration

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Version Title:  View help for Version Title Small update to summary

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Highway Data Element Dictionary _ Department of Transportation - Data Portal.pdf application/pdf 228.5 KB 11/10/2025 11:41:PM
gisData2018-2024.zip application/zip 21 GB 11/14/2025 01:29:AM
hpms_field_manual_dec2016.pdf application/pdf 12.4 MB 10/28/2025 03:28:AM

Project Citation: 

United States Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) - Geospatial Data part 1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-11-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/E240301V2

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) - Geospatial Data part 1
Summary:  View help for Summary
Description from the original website

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has been receiving Highway inventory, usage, condition and performance data from State Departments of Transportation (DOT) since 1978 to support the program mission of the FHWA. Specifically, HPMS consists of detailed road segment data for higher order systems, sample attributes for collector systems, and summary data for the local roads.
States DOTs submit HPMS data annually to the FHWA following a prescribed format outlined in the HPMS Field Manual. New requirements for HPMS took effect in 2014 that required State DOTs to expand their Linear Referencing Systems (LRS), a statewide geospatial representation of their road system that includes all public roads. This requirement was put in place to support highway safety.
HPMS public data consists of geospatial reference files and several tables (County Summaries, Urban Summaries, Statewide Summaries, Non-Federal Aid Summaries, and Roadway Sections). Also included in the HPMS public data is the Sample Table.  State Departments of Transportation provide these data tables every June following the data year it represents. Generally, these files will be available to the public by September, after FHWA's review and acceptance of the data. The FHWA does not alter the data provided by State DOTs other than removing data that fails basic format violations. 
The following views of HPMS are intended to provide flexibility for different user groups to effectively analyze the data in HPMS in the most efficient manner.

Comments

The HPMS data sets are split into three parts. This first part are geospatial data for the years of 2018 to 2024. The data sets are provided in geopackage (gpkg) format.  The second part comprises the years 2011 to 2017 and are in shape file format. The third part are tabular data provided as CSV. 
The Data Element Dictionary and the HPMS Field Manual are included for reference. 
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://datahub.transportation.gov/stories/s/3uu4-47sa

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms highways
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2018 – 2024
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data


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