Smart Roadside Initiative Macro Benefit Analysis: User’s Guide for the Benefit-Cost Analysis Tool

Through the Smart Roadside Initiative (SRI), a Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) tool was developed for the evaluation of various new transportation technologies at a State level and to provide results that could support technology adoption by a State Department of Transportation (DOT). The BCA tool provides general guidance on the cost-effectiveness of implementing a freight-related transportation technology and the use of State resources. The BCA tool can be used to evaluate a transportation-related technology after development and prototype testing have been completed. The BCA tool is designed to evaluate the new technology’s economic (to the agency), social (to road users), and environmental impacts. This document has been prepared as a user’s guide to provide analysts with an understanding of how to use the BCA tool.

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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/4038
• Corporate Authors:

  AECOM

  Germantown, MD  United States 

  LMI

  McLean, VA  United States 

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Department of Transportation

  Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Bohmholdt, Andrea
  • Weiss, Jason
• Publication Date: 2015-3-31

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 48p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Computer program documentation; Environmental impacts; Freight transportation; Impacts; State departments of transportation; Technological innovations
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01568659
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-JPO-14-198
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-11-D-00016-T-13002
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 29 2015 9:16AM