The C&P report provides current information on highway and transit assets, trends in system condition, performance, and finance, and estimated investment requirements from all sources to meet the anticipated demands in both highway travel and transit ridership. This C&P report is the third in the series that combines information on the Nation's highway and transit systems. This edition includes an initial perspective on system performance and investment requirements for the National Highway System. It also provides an overview of the Nation's freight industry, highlighting the role that the transport system plays in supporting the mobility requirements of our Nation's economic sectors. As in previous versions, this C&P report contains a maintain and an improve scenario for highways, bridges, and transit systems. Both highway scenarios were developed using the Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS), an economic analysis tool introduced in the 1995 report. This tool seeks to minimize highway user costs, including vehicle operating costs, travel time, and crash costs, as it achieves the defined scenario objective. Bridge estimates for both scenarios continue to be based on engineering analyses. Both transit investment scenarios were developed using the Transit Economic Requirements Model (TERM), an economic analysis tool which integrates National Transit Database information and other data about the nation's transit assets, future changes in transit travel, and benefit-cost analysis.


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    Title :

    Status of the Nation's Surface Transportation System, 1997: Condition and Performance. A Summary


    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    18 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English