Infrastructure Management Project A: Developing a Framework for Prioritizing Infrastructure Improvements on Critical Freight Corridors Project B: Developing a Market Based Framework for Freight Infrastructure Management

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• Creators:
  Schroeder, Jeremy L. ; Demetsky, Michael ; Friesz, Terry ; Yao, Tao
• Corporate Creators:
  Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute ; University of Virginia
• Corporate Contributors:
  Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Decision Support Systems Economic Factors Freight Traffic Highway Corridors Highway Maintenance Infrastructure Level Of Service Needs Assessment Regional Economics Strategic Planning Research Hub
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MAUTC-2010-01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Abstract:
  Fully operational highways are necessary for efficient freight movements by the trucking industry. Yet, the combination of limited funding and aging infrastructure creates a grim scenario for states, which are dependent upon the economic benefits of goods movements. This research develops a comprehensive, freight-based prioritization framework to identify freight infrastructure needs critical to maintaining economic vitality by incorporating economic metrics associated with infrastructure performance and level of service. Framework outputs are a prioritized list of infrastructure needs to sustain economically critical highway infrastructure with consideration to regional economic impacts and safety and mobility improvements. In summary, the framework first evaluates infrastructure needs on a specified highway network, then prioritizes those needs using a decision model to balance developed economic metrics that estimate regional corridor-wide benefits of the local improvement with severity of needs as quantified with conditional performance measures. The developed metrics and prioritization methods are consistently applicable to any region within the United States, and two proofs of concept examine data from the Virginia highway system to demonstrate the methodology. A review of literature documents existing and proposed highway improvement prioritization frameworks to incorporate best practices into the methodology developed for this research. While the literature discounts use of economic development performance measures and the economic importance of a corridor is typically taken for granted, this research adds the dimension of economic significance of a corridor into the prioritization process for infrastructure improvements to generate motivation for private sector investment. An input-output model is used to identify the most transportation dependent industrial sectors, which are then linked with commodity flows using the Federal Highway Administration’s Freight Analysis Framework. A set of conditional performance measures are selected to identify critical locations meriting improvements, including National Bridge Investment Analysis System (NBIAS) outputs, International Roughness Index (IRI), truck fatality crash rate and truck crash rate, and deficiencies in geometric standards. The prioritization methodology is demonstrated by applying the three developed economic metrics to two proofs of concept in Virginia: the U.S. 460 expressway between Petersburg and Hampton Roads and the U.S. 29 bypass in Charlottesville.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT07-G-0003
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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