A NEW TECHNIQUE TO DETERMINE UPGRADING PRIORITIES FOR LOW TRAFFIC VOLUME ROADS

Where traffic volumes are very low - less than 25 per day - conventional measurement of benefits from road upgrading is inappropriate. The new technique described ascribes priority for upgrading the different road sections within a region using weighted proxy values for identified principle road uses. For example, population serves as a proxy for the fulfilment of the social needs of residents served by a given road section. Essentially subjective judgements about the relative importance of various road uses are applied in a consistent and objective manner to rank roads which compete for a fixed volume of funds. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Papers from a 8th Australian Transport Research Forum, Canberra, May 18-20, 1983, Volumes 1-3. This paper was presented in Session 6A: Road Planning and Investment.
• Corporate Authors:

  Australian Government Publishing Service

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• Authors:
  • STANDINGFORD, JRK
  • Gordon, I D
  • RUFFORD, P
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 37-46
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Australian Government Publishing Service
  • Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
  • ISSN: 1032-4152

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Evaluation and assessment; Highways; Improvements; Low volume roads; Methodology; Strategic planning; Traffic flow; Upgrades (Roads)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fund allocations; Low cost roads
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Old TRIS Terms: Upgrade
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 8525: Conference; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 2755: Highway; 9108: Improvement; 2986: Low cost road; 9102: Method; 141: Priority (gen); 671: Traffic flow
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00378993
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0 644 02516 6
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 30 1983 12:00AM