Cost and Benefit Analysis of Installing Fiber Optics on INDOT Projects

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is tasked with the stewardship of billions of dollars’ worth of public invested highway infrastructure. Not only does INDOT continually seek design and operational policies that foster cost effective project delivery and procurement, they also seek opportunities for revenue generation. Due to population growth and the increased demand for online connectivity and global information transmission, the fiber-optic cable industry has experienced rapid growth over the past few years. Information and communication technology (ICT) companies have long sought to achieve higher economic productivity by installing fiber-optic cables in the right of way (ROW) of access-controlled highways. Based on these developments, an experiment was conducted to measure the economic impact in Indiana. To determine this impact, a database was developed by compartmentalizing the analysis into (1) Gross domestic product (GDP) per county per industry type, (2) the natural growth of GDP as a factor, and (3) the extent of contribution of broadband in the growth of GDP. A general formula was developed to incorporate the adjusted median income on both the industry and county levels, along with a broadband contribution factor. This formula was employed to determine policies that can produce optimum economic outcome by leveraging the Pareto method.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284317131
• Summary URL:
  https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=3&article=3276&context=jtrp&type=additional
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56324
• Corporate Authors:

  Purdue University

  Joint Transportation Research Program
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-2051

  Indiana Department of Transportation

  100 N Senate Avenue
  Indianapolis, IN  United States  46204

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Iyer, Ananth V
  • Dunlop, Steven
  • Labi, Samuel
  • Brady Jr, Thomas
  • Amijaya, Eki
  • Nafakh, Abdullah
• Publication Date: 2020-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 88p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Broadband; Fiber optics; Gross domestic product; Highways; Installation; Right of way (Land)
• Identifier Terms: Indiana Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01771763
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/IN/JTRP-2020/15
• Contract Numbers: SPR-4319
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 21 2021 10:54AM