COST-EFFECTIVENESS TECHNIQUES FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY: RESOURCE ALLOCATION. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This document is the executive summary for the final report on a FHWA project entitled "Testing of Improved Evaluation Techniques Using a Representative Set of Accident Countermeasures." This report describes improved and updated highway accident costs and statistics developed from traffic accident and roadway data from five states (Alabama, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Texas), procedures for including other highway user costs in cost-effectiveness evaluations of highway accident countermeasures, and an improved cost-effectiveness methodology for highway safety. Computer programs were developed for three cost-effectiveness procedures--integer programming, dynamic programming, and incremental benefit-cost.

• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Safety and Traffic Operations, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • McFarland, W F
  • Rollins, J B
• Publication Date: 1985-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 15 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Computer programs; Cost effectiveness; Costs; Countermeasures; Crash severity; Crashes; Dynamic programming; Highway safety; Integer programming; Measures of effectiveness; Methodology; Resource allocation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Accident costs; Effectiveness; Highway user costs; Incremental costs
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00457058
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-84-010, FCP 31X2-022
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-80-C-00080
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 27 2004 9:38PM