Download or read book Benefits and Costs of the Kansas Comprehensive Highway Program written by David Anthony Burress and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Impacts of the Kansas Comprehensive Highway Program written by Michael W. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kansas Comprehensive Highway Program (CHP) was an eight year program of highway construction beginning July 1, 1989 and ending June 30, 1997. Overall funding totaled 4 billion dollars. This study measures the economic impact of the 2.86 billion dollars used for construction of K jurisdiction projects. The two objectives were: 1) Measure the DIRECT output, income, and employment impacts by highway improvement type of the CHP; and 2) Measure INDIRECT and INDUCED output, income, and employment impacts by highway improvement type of the CHP.

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Download or read book Comprehensive Costs of Highway Rail Grade Crossing Crashes written by Daniel Brod and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2013 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 755: Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes describes a process for estimating the costs of highway-rail grade crossing crashes. A spreadsheet-based tool to facilitate use of the cost estimation process is available online." --Publisher description.

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Download or read book Current Practices for Assessing Economic Development Impacts from Transportation Investments written by Glen Weisbrod and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis report will be of interest to DOT administrators, supervisors, and staff, as well as to the consultants working with them in assessing the economic development impacts of existing or proposed transportation investments. Metropolitan Planning Organization regional and local staffs might also find it informative. It is intended to help practicing planners become aware of the range of methods and analysis techniques available, organized by the different categories of agency needs, to address different types of planning, policy, and research needs. This synthesis summarizes the current state of the practice by means of a survey of transportation planning agencies in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This report provides reviews of the analysis methods used in recent project and program evaluation reports of these agencies, in addition to a bibliography of economic literature and guides.

Download or read book Effectiveness of Behavioral Highway Safety Countermeasures written by David F. Preusser and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB¿s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 622: Effectiveness of Behavioral Highway Safety Countermeasures explores a framework and guidance for estimating the costs and benefits of emerging, experimental, untried, or unproven behavioral highway safety countermeasures.

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Download or read book Finance Economics and Economic Development 2005 written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No. 1932 explores the replacement of declining fuel tax revenues in Oregon with fees based on vehicle miles traveled; variations in costs of highway investment compared to the Federal Highway Administration℗s Highway Economic Requirements System; the merits of no-queue tolling, time-of-day pricing, and auto restraint policies; how to create public support for road pricing proposals; and more."--pub. website.

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Download or read book Practices and Performance Measures for Local Public Agency Federally Funded Highway Projects written by Leslie Ann McCarthy and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2013 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 442: Practices and Performance Measures for Local Public Agency Federally Funded Highway Projects explores what performance measures, delivery practices, strategies, and tools are currently used in relation to federally-funded local public agency (LPA) highway project development and delivery, and how they are used to measure success in project administration. " -- Publisher's description.