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Functional Classification

FHWA Acceptance Letter from February 2010

 

FHWA Functional Classification Guidelines

• Concepts, Criteria and Procedures

 

Links and Resources

• FHWA Guidelines web site
• Federal Legislation (PDF
• FHWA Guidelines (PDF)
• Summary of FC Guidelines (PDF)
• Criteria & Procedures Presentation (PDF)
• Rural Area Guidelines (PDF)

 

Request to Change Classification or to Classify Planned Non-existent Roads

• Change Request Process (PDF)
• Change Request Form (PDF)

 

Functional Class Mileage

• Cities (XLSX, 54 KB)
• Counties (XLSX, 98 KB)
• RDC (XLSX, 38 KB)
• Background Information (XLS, 17 KB)

 

Planned Non-Existent Roads

• Criteria for Adding Non-Existent Mileage

 

Existing System - March 2009

 

 

View maps of the locations

• These maps are in PDF format and may take a minute to open.

 

Out-state counties   Select a county Aitkin Becker Beltrami Benton Big Stone Blue Earth Brown Carlton Cass Chippewa Chisago Clay Clearwater Cook Cottonwood Crow Wing Dodge Douglas Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Grant Houston Hubbard Isanti Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi Kittson Koochiching Lac Qui Parle Lake of the Woods Lake Le Sueur Lincoln Lyon Mahnomen Marshall Martin McLeod Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison Mower Murray Nicollet Nobles Norman Olmsted Otter Tail Pennington Pine Pipestone Polk Pope Red Lake Redwood Renville Rice Rock Roseau Sherburne Sibley St. Louis Stearns Steele Stevens Swift Todd Traverse Wabasha Wadena Waseca Watonwan Wilkin Winona Wright Yellow Medicine

 

Out-state counties   Select a city Albert Lea Albertville Alexandria Arco Austin Baxter Bemidji Big Lake Brainerd Breckenridge Buffalo Cambridge Chisholm Buhl Cloquet Cottonwood Crookston Delano Detroit Lakes Duluth (All) Duluth (City Center) East Grand Forks Elk River Ely Fairmont Faribault Fergus Falls Gary Glencoe Grand Marais Grand Rapids Halstad Hermantown Heron Lake Hibbing Hutchinson International Falls Isanti Kasson La Crescent Lake City Litchfield Little Falls Mankato Marshall Montevideo Monticello Moorhead Morris New Prague New Ulm North Branch North Mankato Northfield Otsego Owatonna Park Rapids Pine Island Pipestone Red Wing Redwood Falls Rochester Saint Cloud Saint Joseph Saint Michael Saint Peter Sartell Sauk Rapids Silver Bay Staples Stewartville Thief River Falls Two Harbors Virginia/Eveleth Waite Park Waseca Willmar Winona Worthington

 

Out-state MPO   Select an MPO Arrowhead APO Fargo COG Grand Forks La Crescent LAPC ROCOG St. Cloud APO

 

Twin Cities Metropolitan Functional Classification

 

Functional Classification System Update

 

Functional Classification Background

 

Functional classification is the grouping of streets and highways into classes or systems according to the character of service they are intended to provide. Basic to this process is the recognition that most travel involves movement through a network of roads. Functional classification defines the role that any particular road or street plays in serving the flow of trips through an entire network.

 

Functional Classification is required and widely used

 

Federal law requires in CFR §470.105(b)(1) that: The State transportation agency shall have the primary responsibility for developing and updating a statewide highway functional classification in rural and urban areas to determine functional usage of the existing roads and streets. . . . The State shall cooperate with responsible local officials, or appropriate Federal agency in the case of areas under Federal jurisdiction, in developing and updating the functional classification.

 

This applies to all public roads in Minnesota (~138,000 miles) and is used in state and local planning, as well as in the determination of eligibility for Federal and State Aid.

 

Process

 

Comprehensive Functional Classification System Updates

MnDOT works in partnership with the state’s regional development commissions (RDCs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to periodically review and revise the statewide Functional Classification System. Complete updates to the statewide Functional Classification System are undertaken infrequently, with the most recent completed in 2009 and approved by FHWA in 2010. This web page functions as a repository for the resulting system maps and mileage tables. The next major update is anticipated within the next 4-6 years, or following any substantial federal revision of guidelines for the system.

 

Individual Roadway Changes of Functional Classification

The Functional Classification change process indicates that a change request is considered accepted and approved upon the signature of the District Planner or District State Aid Engineer. It is the responsibility of the submitting Regional Development Commission and/or Metropolitan Planning Organization staff to assure that the change conforms with FHWA’s Functional Classification Guidelines and that conformance is reflected in the change request form.  In signing the requests, District Planners/State Aid Engineers are concurring that the change is in conformance with the FHWA Guidelines.

 

MnDOT’s Office of Statewide Multimodal Planning (OSMP) with assistance from OCPPM will review the classification percentages by planning area (MPO or RDC) on at least an annual basis to assure that the overall system percentages are consistent with FHWA Functional Classification Guidelines.