Download or read book A Quick Benefit cost Procedure for Evaluating Proposed Highway Projects written by John H. Lemmerman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing A Nation written by Gerald O. Barney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of reviews of microcomputer programs of special relevance to those people around the world who are responsible for the management of the current and future affairs and business of their countries.
Download or read book The Handbook of Highway Engineering written by T.F. Fwa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-09-28 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern highway engineering reflects an integrated view of a road system's entire lifecycle, including any potential environmental impacts, and seeks to develop a sustainable infrastructure through careful planning and active management. This trend is not limited to developed nations, but is recognized across the globe. Edited by renowned authority
Download or read book Transportation Research Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Draft Environmental Impact Statement section 4 f Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NCDOT Benefit cost Analysis for Planning Highway Projects written by Daniel J. Findley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating the economic feasibility of highway projects can be a time consuming and difficult process. Over time and a variety of projects, analysts may use inconsistent methods and data with the result that similar projects cannot be compared with respect to their relative costs and benefits. To rectify these problems the North Carolina Department of Transportation supported this effort to develop a tool that will provide consistent estimates of the costs and benefits for various highway projects. The tool developed by this effort applies concepts from the AASHTO Redbook and a customized version of the Redbook Wizard spreadsheet. The final report documents the project, provides a user manual, and develops case study applications for several types of highway projects.
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Download or read book An Economic Analysis Methodology for Project Evaluation and Programming written by Yi Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic analysis is a critical component of a comprehensive project or program evaluation methodology that considers all key quantitative and qualitative impacts of highway investments. It allows highway agencies to identify, quantify, and value the economic benefits and costs of highway projects and programs over a multiyear timeframe. This research was conducted to provide the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) with a uniform economic analysis methodology. The developed economic evaluation model applies the methodology of life-cycle benefit cost analysis to perform economic analysis for proposed highway projects. As a result of this research, an Excel based computer program, the Indiana Highway Economic Evaluation Model (IHEEM), was developed to provide a convenient tool for INDOT personnel to implement the method. The main costs and benefits contained in the model are agency costs and user benefits. Agency costs include initial costs, routine maintenance costs, rehabilitation costs, and remaining value of the facility. User benefits contain travel time savings, vehicle operating cost savings, and crash reduction savings. In addition to the deterministic method for cost and benefit analysis, an alternative probabilistic approach was also developed and incorporated into IHEEM so that the outputs can be expressed as ranges of values with likelihoods of occurrence.
Download or read book Development of Benefit Cost Analysis Tools for Evaluating Transportation Research Projects written by Nikolai Auburn Greer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation research projects are vital to transportation agencies for the accumulation of new technology and knowledge for the improvement of efficiency and safety of transportation infrastructure. The purpose of this thesis was to demonstrate an evaluation of a state DOT research program and to develop benefit cost analysis tools to assist transportation agencies in evaluating transportation research projects. The evaluation presented in this thesis was a performance evaluation of the Wyoming Department of Transportation Research Center. The evaluation identified a total of 64 research projects were submitted to the WYDOT Research Center between 2011 and 2016. The evaluation accessed the performance of the WYDOT Research Center by evaluating performance measures and feedback received from feedback surveys. The results of the performance measures were compared to a previous evaluation for a time period between 2005 to 2010. This indicated that the number of projects reports completed each year increased from three reports per year to five in the 2011 to 2016 time period. The number of projects that were not completed on-time and within budget decreased by half from seven in the 2005 to 2010 time period to three in the 2011 to 2016 time period. The evaluation also indicated that the annual research budget for the WYDOT Research Center increased by nine percent in the 2011 to 2016 time period. The evaluation of the WYDOT research Center indicated that the performance of the research program has had significant improvements and the performance of the WYDOT Research Center should be continued to be evaluated. Benefit cost analysis (BCA) tools were also developed in this thesis to assist state DOTs in evaluating transportation research projects. The BCA tools were developed using Microsoft Excel to provide a process for evaluating research project after the first year of implementation. The tools consider that the cost associated with a transportation research project is a combination of costs incurred during research and implementation. The tools provide analysis methods for estimating the benefits of changes in the level of service of a roadway, reductions in the vehicle travel time, changes in vehicle operating cost and reductions in the number of crashes on a roadway. The process for estimating the benefits for changes in the vehicle travel time uses the Akçelik travel time model to estimate the travel time on a roadway and FHWA values of travel time. The procedures for estimating the benefits of changes in the level of service uses the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) to estimate the level of service for a roadway and uses criteria developed to indicates the savings of changes in the level of service. The benefits of changes in the vehicle operating costs uses the Highway Economic Requirements System vehicle operating cost model to estimate the vehicle operating cost. The benefit estimation procedures evaluate the differences between a situation without and with implementation of a research project to indicate the saving due to the implementation of the project. The process for estimating the benefits of crash reductions uses Highway Safety Manual (HSM) safety performance functions (SPF) to predict the number of crashes on freeway segments, multilane highways, or two-lane two-way highways. Crash modification factors are applied to the SPFs to indicate a change in the number of crashes and FHWA crash costs are used to indicate the monetary benefits of crash reductions. The BCA tools use CPI from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to adjust for inflation by adjusting the dollar value of costs and benefits to a common year of reference. The BCA tools also have multiple limitations in their use. The limitations of the tools include a limited number of benefits that can be quantified using the tools which limits the research projects that can be evaluated using the tools and the SPF in the crash reduction benefit estimation procedures are not representative of actual road conditions. The developed BCA tools were designed to assists in making key decision during the proposal and implementation phase of a transportation research project. The BCA tools were used to evaluate five case studies to illustrate the use of the developed tools. Each case study demonstrated varying situation where the BCA tools were used to evaluate the economic outcome of a transportation research project. The first case study evaluated an implemented research project that investigated the effectiveness of variable speed limit systems implemented along I-80 in Wyoming. The BCA ratio for the case study was 6.64 indicating that the project was economically justifiable. The second case study evaluated a research proposal that investigated the impacts of truck traffic on I-80 in Wyoming. This resulted in a BCA ratio of a 9.23 indicating truck traffic mitigation strategies on I-80 are potentially economically beneficial. The third case study evaluated an additional implemented research project that investigated wildlife overpasses and underpasses implemented on US 191 in Wyoming. This resulted in a BCA ratio of 0.46 indicating that the implementation of wildlife overpasses and underpasses was not economically beneficial after the first year of implementation. The fourth case study evaluated a recently completed transportation research project without utilizing the developed benefit estimation procedures. The case study investigated the feasibility of implementing last mile package delivery in Wyoming public transportation systems. Resulting in a BCA ratio of a 2.57 indicating that the implementation of last mile package delivery for revenue generation is potentially economically beneficial. The final case study evaluated an implemented transportation research project where research costs are unknown. The case study evaluated the use of differential truck speed limits and uniform speed limits on two-lane highways in Montana. The BCA ratio for the case study was 17.5 indicating that the implementation of a uniform speed limit on two-lane highways in Montana is economically beneficial. The case studies indicated that the developed BCA tools are a beneficial tool for quantifying the benefits of transportation research projects.
Download or read book Guidance for Cost Estimation and Management for Highway Projects During Planning Programming and Preconstruction written by Stuart D. Anderson and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 574: Guidance for Cost Estimation and Management for Highway Projects During Planning, Programming, and Preconstruction explores approaches to cost estimation and management designed to overcome the root causes of cost escalation and to support the development of consistent and accurate project estimates through all phases of the development process, from long-range planning, through priority programming, and through project design. NCHRP Web-Only Document 98 details the steps followed by the research team in the development of NCHRP Report 574"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Benefit cost Analysis of the Proposed Post 1977 Highway Construction Program written by Dan G. Haney and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Using Benefit cost Analysis to Evaluate the Distribution of Highway Project Benefits written by Patrick DeCorla-Souza and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Highway Investment and Economic Development written by Earl J. Washington and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report presents a review of the literature, a survey of current practices regarding policies used to foster economic development through intercity highway improvements and the identification of current analytical techniques for assessing the economic development impacts of highways. The review contains extensive documentation of economic development programs in other states which should be useful to the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation (SDHPT) in developing guidelines for evaluating the economic development potentials of highway expenditures in Texas. However, the precise impact of a particular transportation improvement, often times is difficult to assess. The results of a preliminary survey indicate that 9 state Department of Transportation's (DOTs) give some consideration to, or use the promotion of economic development as part of their long range statewide highway planning criteria. The objectives of these efforts range from the mere completion of a statewide four lane network to the development of a process specifically intended to increase the competitive advantage of the states' communities by funding certain types of highway improvement.
Download or read book Procedure for Evaluating Cost benefit Effectiveness of Safety Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Highway Engineering written by Martin Rogers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The repair, renovation and replacement of highway infrastructure, along with the provision of new highways, is a core element of civil engineering, so this book covers basic theory and practice in sufficient depth to provide a solid grounding to students of civil engineering and trainee practitioners. Moves in a logical sequence from the planning and economic justification for a highway, through the geometric design and traffic analysis of highway links and intersections, to the design and maintenance of both flexible and rigid pavements Covers geometric alignment of highways, junction and pavement design, structural design and pavement maintenance Includes detailed discussions of traffic analysis and the economic appraisal of projects Makes frequent reference to the Department of Transport’s Design Manual for Roads and Bridges Places the provision of roads and motorways in context by introducing the economic, political, social and administrative dimensions of the subject
