The Transportation Policy and Economic Competitiveness Program’s Minnesota Transportation Finance Database is the go-to resource for researchers and industry professionals analyzing trends in funding, safety, vehicles, and more. In recent months, numerous datasets have been updated to provide the latest available information at both state and local levels. Examples of new and updated datasets include:
- NEW: Pavement type by county — Includes information on the centerline mileage and lane mileage by pavement type. This includes bituminous, concrete, dirt/unimproved, gravel, and other.
- NEW: The pavement condition Minnesota’s County State Aid Highway System — Includes information on the length of roads in good, fair, and poor condition for all roads in Minnesota's County State-Aid Highway System.
- NEW: The pavement condition Minnesota's National Highway System — Includes information on the length of roads in good, fair, and poor condition for all roads in Minnesota's National Highway System (including interstates, US highways, and MN highways, and all of them combined).
- NEW: Bridge Condition — Includes information on the bridge count and area in good, fair, poor condition, and structurally deficient.
Updated data includes state funding and bond funds; local funding — including local governmental fund data from cities, counties, and townships; transit operating and capital funds for urban and rural transit systems; and airport expenditures.
This new and updated data will also be reflected in the database’s visualization tool which provides at-a-glance graphs, charts, and animations of the trends over time.