Evaluating Highway Capacity Investments using a GIS-Based Tool – Trip-Based Full Marginal Cost Approach

This paper presents a geographic information system (GIS)-based interactive tool that was developed for the evaluation and analysis of full-marginal-costs (FMC) of highway transportation in New Jersey. First, a constrained k-shortest path algorithm is proposed to estimate the trip-based FMC of a trip along a set of feasible paths between each Origin-Destination (O-D) pair attractive to travelers. Next, various transportation cost categories are estimated. The methodology is then implemented in ArcGIS, using Visual Basic and C-programming language. The GIS-based tool, not only estimates FMC between a selected O-D pair, but also compares complete/partial networks to assess impacts of infrastructure investments on the FMC. This tool will help planners to calculate accurate costs between different trips for various user-defined scenarios of demand/supply changes.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

  Secretariat, 14 Avenue Berthelot
  69363 Lyon cedex 07,   France 
• Authors:
  • Yanmaz-Tuzel, Ozlem
  • Ozbay, Kaan
  • Bartin, Bekir
  • Mudigonda, Sandeep
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 34p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer programs; Geographic information systems; Highway capacity; Marginal costs; Methodology; Origin and destination; Shortest path algorithms; Traffic estimation; Traffic models; Travel costs
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01122101
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 19 2009 2:42PM