Evaluation of the Southwest Freeway Motorist Assistance Program in Houston

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• Creators:
  Hawkins, Paul A.
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Transfer Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Freeway management systems
  • Benefit cost analysis
  • Costs
  • Freeways
  • Reconstruction
  • Time duration
  • Traffic delays
  • Traffic incidents
  • Evaluation
  • Incident management
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Abstract:
  The Houston Motorist Assistance Program (MAP) assigned two vans to patrol the U.S. 59 Southwest Freeway during the reconstruction projects. These patrols operated from about July 1991 until the majority of the construction was completed in September 1992. This report evaluates the benefits that this program produced during a one-year period. This study calculated a benefit-cost ratio of 19 for the program. The duration of an average incident on the Southwest Freeway declined from an estimated 46.5 minutes without MAP to approximately 30 minutes with MAP. This incident duration reduction of 16.5 minutes, along with the free services received by assisted motorists, resulted in almost 3.7 million dollars of benefits to the motorists for a one-year period from August 1991 to 1992. This dollar value is based on the total value of time that was saved by the motorists who would have experienced more delay had not MAP been patrolling this freeway.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/83101/dot_83101_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.14 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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