In the past, most public investments in local rural road and branch rail lines were made independent of each other. The purpose of the study was to develop and apply a benefit-cost method of evaluating the tradeoffs between investments in local rural roads and investments in branch rail lines. The method evaluated the impact of local rural road and branch rail line investments on grain revenues to farmers and grain elevators, transport costs for delivery of fertilizer and other farm inputs and outputs, household travel costs for shopping, commuting, deliveries, guests, and other household travel, road maintenance and safety costs, and grain elevator investment costs. The method was applied to a case study of Marshall County, Iowa for the years 1986, 1987, and 1988. Several branch rail line and road investment alternatives were evaluated. The study included only traffic that originated or terminated in rural areas and overhead traffic that traveled over the rural roads. Since the focus of the study was on the analysis of surface transportation for the purposes of serving rural traffic, the benefits of constructing urban bypasses were not estimated.
Alternative Investments in the Rural Branch Railroad and County Road Systems
1991
111 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Road Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation , Rural areas , Highway economic factors , Benefit cost analysis , Railroads , Investment return analysis , Cargo transportation , Highway planning , Transportation planning , Highway maintenance , Highway costs , Mathematical models , Railroad transportation , Rural highways , Rural roads
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