Recovering full repair costs of INDOT infrastructure damaged by motor vehicle crashes.

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Joint Transportation Research Program Technical Report Series : Civil Engineering
• Creators:
  Farnsworth, Grant D. ; Brennan, Thomas M. ; Bullock, Darcy M.
• Corporate Creators:
  Joint Transportation Research Program (Ind.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  Indiana Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Accident Investigation--Indiana Collisions Cost Recovery Infrastructure Maintenance Management Roads--Indiana--Maintenance And Repair--Costs Traffic Crashes Traffic Accidents--Indiana--Costs
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/IN/JTRP-2011/11
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Indiana
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Purdue University. Joint Transportation Research Program
• Abstract:
  There are approximately 4,000 instances per year where state property located along Indiana Department of Transportation
  
  (INDOT) maintained right-of-way needs to be replaced or repaired due to motor vehicle crashes. INDOT incurs significant financial
  
  losses to repair state property damage that is not recovered from the responsible driver because responsible parties cannot be
  
  identified and invoices do not reflect the fully-loaded cost of the repair. This study’s objective is to identify enhanced management
  
  procedures to decrease the financial burden of the state by identifying best practices supporting the following four goals: 1)
  
  increasing the percent of invoices collected, 2) more effectively associating vehicle crash reports with crash damaged infrastructure,
  
  3) decreasing the process time, and 4) ensuring that invoices reflect the fully-loaded repair cost. As part of the study INDOT’s
  
  recovery process was compared to peer states, a prototype process to document crash damaged infrastructure was field tested,
  
  enhanced crash repair documents were developed, and crash report queries were evaluate.
  
  Based on the research, this report recommends that the recovery process should begin with the placement of a tag by the
  
  investigating law enforcement officer at the scene of the crash. This tag would allow maintenance crews to directly link
  
  infrastructure damage with a specific vehicle crash report. This report recommends that a notification letter be sent to the driver
  
  and/or insurance company notifying them of the pending invoice. Past invoicing challenges show that these components are
  
  expected to increase the likelihood of successful repair cost recovery. This report also recommends that an administration fee be
  
  included in the repair costs to facilitate the new procedures. Performance measures have been proposed to evaluate the
  
  effectiveness of these procedures.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SPR-3411
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23924/dot_23924_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 76.39 MB ]