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Recovering full repair costs of INDOT infrastructure damaged by motor vehicle crashes.
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2011-01-01
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Alternative Title:Joint Transportation Research Program Technical Report Series : Civil Engineering
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Edition:Final report.
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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.
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