HIGHWAY INVESTMENT ANALYSIS PACKAGE (HIAP) VOLUME I: USER'S GUIDE

The Highway Investment Analysis Package (HIAP) is a computerized evaluation and investment programming model developed to aid State, regional, and local organizations in making the best use of limited highway funds. Using microeconomic theory, HIAP analyzes alternative (including staged) improvements to individual roadway sections and limited networks of sections specified by their physical, traffic, and operational characteristics. Estimates of both highway user (i.e., vehicle operating costs, travel times, and accidents) and non-user (i.e., noise levels and air pollutant emissions) impacts are produced. Non-user impacts may be compared to specified threshold values to identify environmental problems and to screen improvements for the program selection process. HIAP uses marginal analysis to develop multiperiod investment programs, selecting those imporvements which maximize either user benefits or one of several accident reduction measures. The selection process permits consideration of a broad range of funding constraints, which may be tailored to the specific needs of individual organizations. It allows consideration of multiple alternatives and staged improvements at each analysis site. Great flexibility in the content and format of input data is afforded the analyst. Furthermore, HIAP includes a transformation program which allows the analysis of data already available in the format used for the 1970-1990 Highway Needs Study. /Author/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. This document is the product of a contract which developed HIAP from an existing FHWA model. Contract DOT-FH-11-9263 (sched. completion date 8/30/78) is a follow-up which will produce updated documentation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Multisystems, Incorporated

  1050 Massachusetts Avenue
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02138
• Authors:
  • Juster, R D
  • Batchelder, J H
• Publication Date: 1976-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 723 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Computer programs; Costs; Evaluation; Highways; Improvements; Investments; Mathematical models; Microeconomics; Networks; Travel time; User benefits
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis; Fund allocations; Models
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Finance; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172043
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-FH-11-8252 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FH-11-8252
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 29 2002 12:00AM