This paper deals with two strategic themes that the PIARC committee C15 on the Performance of Road Administrations was given to examine, namely: to propose an effective performance management framework and to identify internationally comparable measures of performance of the road system and road administrations. The paper develops performance measures for economic, social, health/safety and environmental outcome areas and shows that the importance of each outcome area depends on the stage at which road network development has reached. Finally, it proposes a set of measures of total factor productivity as delivery indicators for the Road Administration.