Missouri ranks 12th in the nation in highway performance and cost-effectiveness in the Annual Highway Report by Reason Foundation.

Missouri ranks 29th in fatality rate, 34th in deficient bridges, 20th in rural Interstate pavement condition, 20th in urban Interstate pavement condition, and 26th in urbanized area congestion.

On spending, Missouri ranks 4th in total disbursements per mile and 2nd in administrative disbursements per mile.

Missouri’s best rankings are administrative disbursements per mile (2nd), total disbursements per mile (4th), and capital-ridge disbursements per mile (4th).

Missouri’s worst rankings are rural arterial lane-width (43rd) and deficient bridges (34th).

Missouri’s state-controlled highway mileage makes it the 7th largest system.

Missouri’s Complete Results Ranking
Overall Rank in 2013: 12
Overall Rank in 2012: 12
Overall Rank in 2011: 13
Performance by Category in 2013 Ranking
Total Disbursement per Mile 4
Capital-Bridge Disbursements per Mile 4
Maintenance Disbursements per Mile 12
Administrative Disbursements per Mile 2
Rural Interstate Percent Poor Condition 20
Rural Other Principal Arterial Percent Poor Condition 13
Rural Other Principal Arterial Percent Narrow Lanes 43
Urban Interstate Percent Poor Condition 20
Urbanized Area Congestion, Annual Delay Per Auto Commuter 26
Bridges Percent Deficient 34
Fatality Rate per 100 Million Vehicle-Miles of Travel 29

The Annual Highway Report is based on spending and performance data submitted by state highway agencies to the federal government for 2013. For more details on the calculation of each of the 11 performance measures used in the report, as well as the overall performance measure, please refer to the appendix in the main report. The report’s dataset includes Interstate, federal and state roads but not county or local roads. All rankings are based on performance measures that are ratios rather than absolute values: the financial measures are disbursements per mile, the fatality rate is fatalities per 100 million vehicle-miles of travel, the urban congestion measure is the annual delay per auto commuter, and the others are percentages. For example, the state ranking 1st in deficient bridges has the smallest percentage of deficient bridges, not the smallest number of deficient bridges.

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