Evaluation of costs to process and manage utility and driveway permits.

Details

• Creators:
  Quiroga, Cesar ; Sharma, Sushant ; Meyland, Mary
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Access Control (Transportation) Costs Driveways Feasibility Analysis Fees Permits Public Utilities
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-14/0-6756-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office
• Abstract:
  Reviewing and processing utility and driveway permits at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
  
  requires a considerable amount of involvement and coordination by TxDOT personnel, both at the district
  
  and division levels. Currently, TxDOT absorbs the entire cost to review, process, and archive utility and
  
  driveway permits, regardless of type of permit application, proposed project scale, or required TxDOT
  
  resources involved. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the time and costs to process various types
  
  of utility and driveway permits, evaluate potential fee alternatives, determine the feasibility of transferring
  
  permitting responsibilities to local jurisdictions, and develop recommendations for access management
  
  compliance. To estimate the costs, the researchers conducted extensive interviews with TxDOT districts and
  
  divisions to characterize the permitting process and collected permit data from multiple sources. The cost
  
  estimation included direct labor, equipment, information technology, and office cost categories, as well as
  
  some costs associated with coordination activities that are directly relevant to the permitting function. Data
  
  availability enabled a differentiation between simple and complex utility permits as well as a differentiation
  
  between residential and nonresidential driveway permits. With this information, the researchers examined
  
  potential fee alternatives to cover permit administrative costs. Based on feedback from districts and
  
  divisions, the researchers concluded that transferring utility permits to local jurisdictions was not feasible
  
  given the current utility permitting structure at TxDOT. However, transferring driveway permitting to local
  
  jurisdictions is feasible under certain conditions. The researchers conducted four regional stakeholder
  
  workshops to discuss and fine-tune the research findings and recommendations.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Project 0-6756
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e11e0cad3041e834e11c3505a43ace99cd00f06562a8b1743d00964dd03be0f5
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28341/dot_28341_DS1.pdf
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