Montana Highway Reconfiguration Study

The 2001 Montana State legislature and Governor’s Office directed the Department (MDT) to conduct a study examining the economic impact of reconfiguring the State’s major two-lane highways. To achieve this overall goal, the Governor created the Reconfiguration Study Steering Committee (RSSC) to guide the Highway Reconfiguration Study. The RSSC developed a scope of work for a consultant team that called for the development of an analytical tool box that would give MDT the ability to evaluate the economic benefits and costs of highway investments anywhere in the State that could be expected to generate significant economic benefits for the State as a whole. The consultant team, led by Cambridge Systematics, Inc., evaluated all of the available tools used for state-of the-practice benefit/cost analysis of highway investments. Their findings led to their development of the Highway Economic Analysis Tool (HEAT). HEAT combines seven automated and linked modules into a software package that MDT will operate in-house. Once fully tested, HEAT will become a fourth performance measure for MDT’s Performance Programming Process (P3), which at present includes bridge preservation, pavement preservation, and congestion relief.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.mdt.mt.gov/research/reconfigstdy/
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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24876
• Supplemental Notes:
  • The date on the title page is May 2005. The date on both the cover page and on the technical report documentation page is February 2005.
• Corporate Authors:

  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

  555 12th Street, Suite 1600
  Oakland, CA  United States  94607-3616

  Montana Department of Transportation

  2701 Prospect Avenue
  P.O. Box 201001
  Helena, MT  United States  59620-1001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Wornum, Christopher
  • Hodge, Daniel
  • Weisbrod, Glen
  • Colby, Julie
  • Lynch, Teresa
  • Payne, Rod
  • Benson, Mark
  • Ang-Olson, Jeff
• Publication Date: 2005-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 330p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Economic impacts; Investments; Software packages; Two lane highways
• Identifier Terms: Highway Economic Analysis Tool (HEAT)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Reconfiguration
• Geographic Terms: Montana
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01001014
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/MT-05-003/8164
• Contract Numbers: 8164
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 15 2005 3:48PM