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54 Investment Prioritization Methods for Low-Volume Roads • Threshold effects from long-term reductions in low-volume road performance. Many DOT practitioners view the current scaling back of spending on LVRs in some states (as detailed in the case examples) as a temporary and not necessarily sustainable fix. Given this perspective, states would benefit from additional research on how to anticipate threshold effects in long-term performance changes over time. The research would address questions such as how much scaling back is “too much” and when, how, and who will those changes affect? Those ques- tions are related to the idea of minimally acceptable levels of access introduced in some of the reviewed international literature. There are opportunities for further research on this topic and for incorporation of findings into investment prioritization approaches.

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