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      <title>Reconciling Travel Time Saving Estimates in the SPOT Process</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With nearly three billion dollars annually of NC taxpayer dollars at stake in the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) Prioritization process of ranking highway projects for funding, travel time savings (TTS) constitute a key input into the projects' benefit cost analyses. Yet, estimates of those savings for various competing projects are derived from models that are completely different in scales, both spatially and temporally, including a low-resolution statewide travel demand model, a highly detailed microsimulation model and a manual calculation based on very limited data. The method of reconciling those estimates across projects has varied from no adjustments in some past Prioritization rounds, to prioritizing based on the relative number of project requests (e.g. corridor vs. intersection improvements) as was done in Prioritization 5.0. This research is intended to study the current process and tools, and propose alternative reconciliation methods for the travel time estimates that can improve and make the ranking process more transparent, robust and replicable. The approach adopted in this project will include significant interaction with all the stakeholders involved in the process including the congestion management staff, its consultants along with the STI implementation team. This approach also does not presume that any of the three modeling approaches (Statewide model, TransModeler and CALC) represent the ground truth. The objective is to simply re-align the results generated by the three models in a manner that does not bias the resulting priorities to specific types of projects. Finally, and to enable the testing of the proposed reconciliation  methods with P6.0.0 selected projects and its full implementation as part of the P7.0 process in 2020, the research team requests an early start of this project, no later than July 1, 2019.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:54:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>GIS Database for the Archeological Sensitivity of Rhode Island Department of Transportation's Highway Bridge Sites and Associated Roadway Approaches</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This study will assess the archeological sensitivity of Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) bridge and associated roadway approaches for projects currently identified in the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and the RIDOT Project Management Portal (PMP) and, in doing so, will assist the Environmental and Cultural Resources Units of RIDOT in expediting the identification and evaluation phase if the Section 106 review process. The study will target all bridges in the TIP and PMP, including those that are scheduled by RIDOT for rehabilitation or replacement. The study will combine archeological, historical, and cartographic research with field survey. The deliverable will include a geospatial database with coverage for bridge footprints (buffered to 200 meters), known archeological sites in the vicinity of the bridges, known historic sites in the vicinity of the bridges, and, for priority bridges scheduled for replacement, cultural material identified during reconnaissance level survey of historic bridges and their surrounding areas. This later coverage would be tied or "hotlinked" to a library of geo-tagged photographs of the cultural material. The major benefit of this study is to complete the identification and evaluation phase of the Section 106 review process for all current bridge projects rather than undertaking this phase for each individual project on a project-by-project basis, as is current practice.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:05:09 GMT</pubDate>
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