THE FEASIBILITY OF PLANNING, ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING A FREEWAY INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The economic feasibility of developing a freeway incident management (FIM) program in the Des Moines, Iowa metropolitan area was estimated using a life-cycle cost approach. The costs of planning, establishing and implementing the various components of an FIM program were estimated for a 40-year period. Those costs were then compared to travel efficiency gains over the same period. The study found FIM to be economically feasible with an estimated benefit/cost ratio of approximately 6.0. This paper examines the benefit and cost assumptions used to examine the feasibility of an FIM program and applies these assumptions to the Des Moines Area Alternatives Analysis.

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Wells, S R
• Conference:
  • Compendium of Technical Papers, 64th ITE Annual Meeting
  • Location: Dallas, Texas
  • Date: 1994-10-16 to 1994-10-19
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 533-537

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Feasibility analysis; Freeways; Highway traffic; Highway traffic control; Traffic incidents
• Uncontrolled Terms: Incidents
• Geographic Terms: Iowa
• Old TRIS Terms: Freeway traffic
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00716717
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 1996 12:00AM