Although benefit-cost assessment is a useful tool in structuring the decision making process, it has not generally been used to assist in multi-modal decision making in metropolitan areas. Also, although detailed zone-to-zone trip information can be obtained from metropolitan travel-demand models, this information is not currently used by planners in developing detailed information on cross-modal comparisons of costs and benefits. A real-world application of benefit-cost analysis for multi-modal decision making using detailed zone-to-zone trip data output from travel-demand models for the I-15 corridor in Salt Lake City is presented. The analysis was conducted at two levels: corridor and region-wide. The research suggests that, when major investments are to be evaluated, the analyst should be very cautious in performing corridor-level analyses when such a trip-based approach is used, because of significant effects on the evaluation caused by traffic diverted into (or out of) the corridor.


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    Title :

    Estimating Costs and Benefits of Transportation Corridor Alternatives


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1997-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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