Appendix C — Supplementary Tables

C.1 Cost of traffic injuries and fatalities

Cost of traffic serious injuries and fatalities come from a MnDOT analysis of comprehensive crash costs (Office of Transportation System Management 2022), as part of the state’s Benefit-Cost Analysis for Transportation Projects. The most likely values reflect Minnesota’s recent (three-year) crash history and procedures contained in Federal Highway Administration’s Crash Costs for Highway Safety Analysis (Harmon, Bahar, and Gross 2018) published January 2018, with comprehensive crash cost valuation consisting of both economic/monetary impacts (e.g. medical services, insurance claims processing, legal fees) and estimates of the intangible effects from diminished quality of life following injury crashes. Low/high crash cost dispersion is taken from the range of uncertainty for the value of a statistical life found in U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Departmental Guidance: Treatment of the Value of Preventing Fatalities and Injuries in Preparing Economic Analyses” (USDOT 2021) published March 2021.

Table C.1: Per-crash comprehensive costs
Severity Cost per crash
Deaths $13,600,000
Serious Injuries $750,000
Minor Injuries $230,000
Possible Injuries $120,000
No Injury (Property Damage Only) $13,000
Source: MnDOT Office of Transportation System Management.

C.2 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)

The Clean Air Act, which was last amended in 1990, requires EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards (40 CFR part 50) for six principal pollutants (“criteria” air pollutants) which can be harmful to public health and the environment. The Clean Air Act identifies two types of national ambient air quality standards. Primary standards provide public health protection, including protecting the health of sensitive populations such as people who have asthma, children, and the elderly. Secondary standards provide public welfare protection, including protection against decreased visibility and damage to animals, crops, vegetation, and buildings.

Periodically, the standards are reviewed and sometimes may be revised, establishing new standards. The most recently established standards are listed below. In some areas of the U.S., certain regulatory requirements may also remain for implementation of previously established standards.

Units of measure for the standards are parts per million (ppm) by volume, parts per billion (ppb) by volume, and micrograms per cubic meter of air (µg/m³).

Table C.2 are those used for Figure 14.1.

Table C.2: National ambient air quality standards
Pollutant Primary/Secondary Averaging Time Standard
Carbon monoxide (CO) Primary 8-hour 9 ppm (10 mg/m³)
Carbon monoxide (CO) Primary 1-hour 3 ppm (40 mg/m³)
Lead (Pb) Primary and Secondary Rolling 3 months 0.1 µg/m³
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) Primary 1-hour 0.100 ppm (188 µg/m³)
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) Primary and Secondary annual 0.03 ppm (100 µg/m³)
Ozone (O3) Primary and Secondary 8-hour 0.070 ppm (140 µg/m³)
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) Primary annual 9.0 µg/m³ (1 µg/m³ prior to May 6, 2024)[25]
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) Secondary annual 1 µg/m³
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) Primary and Secondary 24-hour 3 µg/m³
Particulate matter (PM10) Primary and Secondary 24-hour 10 µg/m³
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) Primary 1-hour 7 ppb
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) Secondary 3-hour 0. ppm (1,300 µg/m³)
Source: EPA via Wikipedia, 2025-03-20

C.3 Performance Based Planning Targets

Federally required performance measures are tracked and must be reported upon on a regular basis. The Met Council is required to set short-term performance targets for these measures. The results of these measures are primarily concerned with the overall trend and whether this trend is meeting the desired expectations. If a measure is not trending toward achieving the target, federal funds may need to be re-directed to address the problem.

C.3.1 Safety performance (PM1)

All state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations must adopt a program to measure system performance and set performance targets to monitor progress. Targets for the safety performance measures are required annually. Safety is one of five categories for federally required performance measures. The safety targets serve a dual purpose:

  • Inform planning and programming to reduce fatal and serious injuries
  • Track performance of the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)

Federal requirements specify five safety performance measures for both state DOTs and MPOs that must have annual targets for each measure listed in Table C.3.

The Met Council’s targets are informed by statewide goals set forth in the 2020-2024 Minnesota Strategic Highway Safety Plan. The target setting method reduces targets annually to match the region’s share the state goal for safety performance in 2025. The Met Council annually adopts targets, last updated in March 2023.

Table C.3: Safety performance targets, 2023
Target Target value Figure
Total Traffic Fatalities 90 deaths Figure 4.4
Fatality Rate (per 100 million vehicle miles travelled) 0.33 Figure 4.8
Serious injuries 600 injuries Figure 4.5
Serious Crash Rate (per 100 million vehicle miles travelled) 2.18 Figure 4.7
Non-Motorized Fatalities/Serious Injuries 147 deaths or injuries Figure 4.9

C.3.2 Pavement/bridge performance (PM2)

Table C.4: Pavement and bridge condition standards
Target Target value Figure
Interstate Pavement in Good Condition 70% Figure 1.8
Interstate Pavement in Poor Condition 2% Figure 1.6
Non-Interstate Pavement in Good Condition 55% Figure 1.9
Non-Interstate Pavement in Poor Condition 2% Figure 1.7
NHS Bridges in Good Condition 30% Figure 1.1
NHS Bridges in Poor Condition 5% Figure 1.2

C.3.3 System performance and congestion mitigation and air quality (PM3)

Table C.5: System reliability standards
Target Target value Figure
Reliable person-miles travelled on interstate 82%
Reliable person-miles travelled on non-interstate NHS 90%
Truck travel time reliability index < 1.4

C.3.3.1 Congestion mitigation and air quality (CMAQ)

Table C.6: Congestion mitigation and air quality (CMAQ) standards
Target Target value Figure
Peak-hour excessive delay per capita 8.5 hours Figure A.1
Travel by non-single occupancy vehicle 28% Figure 6.2
On-road mobile source emissions 0.0 kg/day

C.4 High-frequency transit stops and routes

As used in Section 15.3.

For each year, we sampled a comparable date from TransitFeeds.com and identified stops served by high-frequency routes, as defined by Metro Transit.

  • stops served by routes that depart every 15 minutes or better,
  • with at least three stops per hour,
  • on weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Once stops were identified, we joined each stop with its 10-minute walkshed. We estimated population by using American Community Survey (ACS) block groups, intersected with the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) area and walksheds.

Table C.7: High-frequency routes, stops served by those routes by year and sample date
Year Date sampled Number of stops served by high-frequency routes Number of unique high-frequency routes High-frequency routes
2013 2013-10-31 1,295 18 Blue Line, 84, 74, 64, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 21, 2, 19, 18, 17, 16, 14, 10
2014 2014-10-06 1,392 21 Green Line, Blue Line, 84, 74, 65, 64, 63, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 21, 2, 19, 18, 17, 16, 14, 10
2015 2015-10-02 1,451 21 Green Line, Blue Line, 84, 74, 65, 64, 63, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 22, 21, 2, 19, 18, 17, 14, 10
2016 2016-09-29 1,594 24 Green Line, Blue Line, A Line, 83, 74, 65, 64, 63, 62, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 22, 21, 2, 19, 18, 17, 14, 11, 10
2017 2017-09-29 1,476 21 Green Line, Blue Line, A Line, 74, 64, 63, 62, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 22, 21, 2, 19, 18, 14, 11, 10
2018 2018-09-27 1,441 21 Green Line, Blue Line, A Line, 74, 64, 63, 62, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 22, 21, 2, 19, 18, 14, 11, 10
2019 2019-09-28 1,334 22 Green Line, C Line, Blue Line, A Line, 74, 64, 63, 62, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 22, 21, 2, 18, 14, 121, 11, 10
2020 2020-10-28 1,296 22 Green Line, C Line, Blue Line, A Line, 74, 64, 63, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 22, 21, 2, 18, 14, 122, 121, 11, 10
2021 2021-10-02 1,361 21 Green Line, C Line, Blue Line, A Line, 74, 64, 63, 6, 54, 515, 5, 4, 3, 22, 21, 2, 18, 14, 121, 11, 10
2022 2022-10-01 1,101 17 Green Line, C Line, Blue Line, A Line, 64, 63, 6, 54, 5, 4, 3, 21, 2, 18, 121, 11, 10