Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Robust investment decisions for highway capacity expansions, draft final report
Author: Robust Investment Decisions for Highway Capacity Expansions
Author: Fernando OrdóñezPublisher:
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Category : Highway capacity
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making
Author: Publisher: Transportation Research Board National Research
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Examines five broad areas of performance including transportation, environment, economics, community, and cost.
Proposed Reauthorization of the Urban Mass Transit Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Pending Highway Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges and Transit: Conditions and Performance
Author: Barry LeonardPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437931219
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
This Conditions and Performance (C&P) report is intended to provide decision makers with an objective appraisal of the physical conditions, operational performances, and financing mechanisms of highways, bridges, and transit systems based both on the current state of these systems and on the projected future state of these systems under a set of alternative future investment scenarios. This report offers a comprehensive, data-driven background to support the development and evaluation of legislative, program, and budget options at all levels of government. This report consolidates conditions, performance, and financial data provided by States, local governments, and mass transit operators to provide a national-level summary. Illus.
Transport Strategies for Net-Zero Systems by Design
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926486878X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Efforts that primarily focus on incremental change in systems that are unsustainable by design are one of the main barriers to scaling up climate action. This report applies the OECD well-being lens process to the transport sector.
Transportation Decision Making
Author: Kumares C. SinhaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118169662
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decisionmaking in transportation project development and programming, whichcan help transportation professionals to optimize their investmentchoices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies forevaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs andimpacts are taken into consideration. The text's logical organization gets readers started with asolid foundation in basic principles and then progressively buildson that foundation. Topics covered include: Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimatingtravel demand, and costing transportation projects Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts forsuch factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operatingcosts Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and landuse as well as its impact on society and culture Assessing a project's environmental impact, including airquality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multipleperformance criteria Programming transportation investments so that resources can beoptimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-widegoals Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followedby a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation isdiscussed and available software for performing evaluations ispresented. At the end of each chapter, readers are providedresources for detailed investigation of particular topics. Theseinclude Internet sites and publications of international anddomestic agencies and research institutions. The authors alsoprovide a companion Web site that offers updates, data foranalysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decisionmaking. Given that billions of dollars are spent each year ontransportation systems in the United States alone, and that thereis a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision makingfor cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this textshould be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers,and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is anideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysisand evaluation.
Highway Capacity and Freight Mobility
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and PipelinesPublisher:
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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission
Author: National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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