Cross-Modal Impact Assessment for Sustainable Transportation Networks

State agencies must make major operational and capital investments into the multi-modal transportation system with wide-ranging impacts. How do we assess the sustainability of each mode for more informed decisions? This project will develop a cost metric (in the unit of dollars) that estimates the total government cost of transportation projects – including direct costs (e.g., capital investments) and indirect costs (e.g., public health impacts from pollutants or climate impacts generated by a particular mode of travel).The main objectives of this project are to: (1) Develop a cost metric (in dollar units) to estimate a total government cost of transportation projects as a function of economic, environmental, and social costs, as it pertains to travel from point A to point B and across different modes of transportation. (2) Document the repeatable methodology for cross-modal sustainability assessment with clear system boundaries. (3) Create a visual summary of the metric that can be easily shared and understood without the need for in-depth technical knowledge.

• Record URL:
  https://www.mass.gov/doc/cross-modal-impact-assessment-for-sustainable-transportation-networks/download

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $99968
• Contract Numbers:

  121271

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Planning, Environment and Realty (HEP)
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Massachusetts Department of Transportation

  10 Park Plaza
  Boston, MA  United States  02116
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  130 Natural Resources Road
  Amherst, MA  United States  01003
• Principal Investigators:

  Boakye, Jessica

  Okte, Egemen

• Start Date: 20230215
• Expected Completion Date: 20240930
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost estimating; Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Sustainable transportation; Transportation modes; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01890182
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Massachusetts Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 121271
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 17 2023 12:39PM