How Transportation Agencies Assess the Value of Added Capacity Highway Projects Versus Other Modal Projects and Strategies (2018) / Chapter Skim
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4 Background The delivery of safe, efficient, and reliable transportation infrastructure and services is a major determinant of economic competitiveness and quality of life. The agencies tasked with providing mobility and accessibility for people and freight have a responsibility for ensuring that their decisions result in the highest and best use of the limited resources available to them.
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Introduction 5 set the direction for activities that maintain the existing functional capabilities of infrastructure (e.g., asset management and operations and management programs) and create parameters for identifying those projects that will increase the capacity, safety, and reliability of the system as identified in subsequent corridor/subarea plans and studies.
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6 How Transportation Agencies Assess the Value of Added Capacity Highway Projects Versus Other Modal Projects and Strategies By contrast, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, the predecessor to FTA, was created in 1964 to provide financial assistance for public transportation projects. A decade later, in 1974, a dedicated formula grant program was created.
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Introduction 7 Over this same period (1985–2014) , absolute growth in passenger-miles-traveled on highways increased nearly 1.4 billion miles, while passenger-miles on rail increased approximately 17.1 million miles.
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8 How Transportation Agencies Assess the Value of Added Capacity Highway Projects Versus Other Modal Projects and Strategies metropolitan area, which includes portions of New Jersey and Connecticut. "In its early years, TRANSCOM was important for recognizing the institutional dimension to technology development and deployment.
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Introduction 9 highway capacity projects against nonhighway projects and strategies are presented to inform future discussion and, potentially, research. Synthesis Objective The objective of this synthesis is to summarize the methods and policies used by state DOTs and MPOs to evaluate and compare different types of transportation improvement strategies.
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10 How Transportation Agencies Assess the Value of Added Capacity Highway Projects Versus Other Modal Projects and Strategies • Chapter 4, Case Examples, provides insights on how the value of added highway capacity projects is assessed versus that of other modal projects and strategies and presents associated issues and opportunities at seven state DOTs and three MPOs. • Chapter 5, Conclusions, summarizes the key findings of this synthesis and the proposed next steps related to research needs.
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