Measuring Highway Benefits of Major Transit Improvements

In order to meet the legislative requirement to measure the mobility benefits of transit improvements, the Department of Transportation (DOT) must develop a methodology to calculate the highway-travel benefits from major transit improvements. To succeed, the resulting methodology must be able to produce estimates of transit-related highway-travel benefits that are technically defensible and nationally consistent. Further, implementation of the methodology must be possible within five years so that it can contribute to the evaluation of proposed New Starts projects within a reasonable time frame.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Transportation, Planning, Research and Development

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $150000.00
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Department of Transportation

  Office of the Secretary
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Belenky, Peter

• Performing Organizations:

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Principal Investigators:

  Ryan, James

• Start Date: 20090413
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20100614
• Source Data: RiP Project 35208

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Improvements; Methodology; Mobility; Project management; User benefits
• Identifier Terms: New Starts Program
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transit improvement projects
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01492341
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Sep 6 2013 1:00AM