Guide for Conducting Benefit-cost Analyses of Multimodal, Multijurisdictional Freight Corridor Investments
Guide for Conducting Benefit-cost Analyses of Multimodal, Multijurisdictional Freight Corridor Investments

Author: Sharada Rallabhandi Vadali

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9780309446259

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"TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Research Report 38: Guide for Conducting Benefit-Cost Analyses of Multimodal, Multijurisdictional Freight Corridor Investments explores how to conduct benefit-cost analyses (BCAs). A BCA is an analytical framework used to evaluate public investment decisions including transportation investments. BCA is defined as a collection of methods and rules for assessing the social costs and benefits of alternative public policies. It promotes efficiency by identifying the set of feasible projects that would yield the largest positive net benefits to society." --

Economic Analysis Primer
Economic Analysis Primer

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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This primer provides a foundation for understanding the role of economic analysis in highway decision making. It is oriented toward state and local officials who have responsibility for assuring that limited resources get targeted to their best uses and who must publicly account for their decisions. Economic analysis is presented as an integral component of a comprehensive infrastructure management methodology that takes a long-term view of infrastructure performance and cost. The primer encompasses a full range of economic issues, including economic fundamentals, life-cycle cost analysis, benefit-cost analysis, forecasting traffic for benefit calculations, risk analysis and economic impact analysis.

Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2006-04-28

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0309164842

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Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks and harms through regulatory interventions is among the most important responsibilities of the government. Such efforts encompass a wide array of activities in many different contexts: improving air and water quality; safeguarding the food supply; reducing the risk of injury on the job, in transportation, and from consumer products; and minimizing exposure to toxic chemicals. Estimating the magnitude of the expected health and longevity benefits and reductions in mortality, morbidity, and injury risks helps policy makers decide whether particular interventions merit the expected costs associated with achieving these benefits and inform their choices among alternative strategies. Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis provides useful recommendations for how to measure health-related quality of- life impacts for diverse public health, safety, and environmental regulations. Public decision makers, regulatory analysts, scholars, and students in the field will find this an essential review text. It will become a standard reference for all government agencies and those consultants and contractors who support the work of regulatory programs.

Freight-demand Modeling to Support Public-sector Decision Making
Freight-demand Modeling to Support Public-sector Decision Making

Author: Cambridge Systematics

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0309155134

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"This report presents an evaluation of possible improvements in freight demand models and other analysis tools and provides a guidebook to assist model developers in implementing these improvements. The report is especially valuable for its findings of general satisfaction with methods available to support freight planning, but concerns with the data available to support that planning. As such, the report focuses on ways to use existing data to develop data inputs for the model, showing that existing and readily available data can be used to develop the inputs required by freight models. The report will enable decision makers at a range of geographical levels to improve the usability of freight demand models."--Pub. desc.

Benefit-Cost Analysis for Program Evaluation
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Program Evaluation

Author: Mark S. Thompson

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1980-09

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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Thompson's successful book makes the techniques of benefit-cost analysis accessible to the non-expert reader. It is valuable as a classroom text or a tool for self-teaching.

Separation of Vehicles
Separation of Vehicles

Author: Cambridge Systematics

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0309154758

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NCHRP Report 649/NCFRP Report 3: Separation of Vehicles - CMV-Only Lanes presents an extensive compendium of information about CMV-only lanes and examines major issues and concepts that should be understood in developing new applications of CMV-only lane concepts as a potential method for both easing congestion and reducing the number of traffic accidents on highways. Appendices to this report, including an annotated literature review, performance evaluation criteria, benefits monetization factors and unit costs, and net present value calculations for benefit-cost analysis, are available on the TRB website. This report and the supplemental information can be used by public agencies that may be considering CMV-only lane concepts in corridor studies or other planning applications. The report provides data such agencies can use to support their own evaluations of CMV-only lane projects.