Framework and Tools for Estimating Benefits of Specific Freight Network Investments (2011) / Chapter Skim
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What is needed are clear procedures that help analysts and decisionmakers integrate these tools and that guide the analysis to ensure consistency from project to project. As described earlier, there is a wide variety of investment decision-making techniques and tools that are used to assess user benefits, conduct return on investment assessments, and perform benefit/cost analysis, economic impact analysis, and risk analysis.
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Developing a new air cargo facility will affect trucking access routes and transportation costs associated with connecting to the facility. Grade crossing projects clearly affect highway modes at the crossing as well as rail operations through the crossing.
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Ensure that these benefit categories are consistent across modes and that mode-specific performance metrics can be reported in a consistent multimodal format. • Investigate ways of incorporating various sensitivities of stakeholders to the importance of specific benefit categories.
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The research team believes that it would be relatively easy to identify prospective test users from the Freight Investment Workshop participants. Once the testers have been identified and have agreed to participate, the research team will provide the results of the initial review of refinements to the test users and will meet in one-onone interviews to identify any additional gaps or issues that the beta testers feel need to be addressed prior to the testing of the Framework.
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Task 4 -- Revise the Draft Guidebook Based on the input received from the test users, the research team will prepare a work plan for making revisions to the guidebook and preparing it in the final format agreed upon with the panel. Prior to undertaking these revisions, the research team will meet with the panel and present the proposed changes.
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