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:
  • Cost recovery
  • Infrastructure
  • Maintenance management
  • Collisions
  • Traffic crashes Traffic accidents--Indiana--Costs
  • Roads--Indiana--Maintenance and repair--Costs
  • Accident investigation--Indiana
• 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.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SPR-3411
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23924/dot_23924_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 76.39 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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