New Mexico ranks 11th in the nation in highway performance and cost-effectiveness in the Annual Highway Report by Reason Foundation.

New Mexico ranks 34th in fatality rate, 8th in deficient bridges, 18th in rural Interstate pavement condition, 15th in urban Interstate pavement condition, and 18th in urbanized area congestion.

On spending, New Mexico ranks 13th in total disbursements per mile and 43rd in administrative disbursements per mile.

New Mexico’s best rankings are maintenance disbursements per mile (1st), capital-bridge disbursements per mile (6th), and deficient bridges (8th).

New Mexico’s worst rankings are administrative disbursements per mile (43rd) and fatality rate (34th).

New Mexico’s state-controlled highway mileage makes it the 20th largest system.

New Mexico’s Complete Results Ranking
Overall Rank in 2013: 11
Overall Rank in 2012: 7
Overall Rank in 2011: 6
Performance by Category in 2013 Ranking
Total Disbursement per Mile 13
Capital-Bridge Disbursements per Mile 6
Maintenance Disbursements per Mile 1
Administrative Disbursements per Mile 43
Rural Interstate Percent Poor Condition 18
Rural Other Principal Arterial Percent Poor Condition 26
Rural Other Principal Arterial Percent Narrow Lanes 26
Urban Interstate Percent Poor Condition 15
Urbanized Area Congestion, Annual Delay Per Auto Commuter 18
Bridges Percent Deficient 8
Fatality Rate per 100 Million Vehicle-Miles of Travel 34

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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