TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) S2-C11-RW-1: Development of Tools for Assessing Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation describes spreadsheet-based tools designed to help calculate a transportation project's impact on travel time reliability, market access, and intermodal connectivity.
The report includes an accounting system designed to incorporate the three metrics into economic benefit and economic impact analyses.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2014. Development of Tools for Assessing Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22502.
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Front Matter | i-vii | |
Executive Summary | 1-2 | |
Chapter 1 - Introduction | 3-4 | |
Chapter 2 - Accounting Framework | 5-20 | |
Chapter 3 - Reliability | 21-38 | |
Chapter 4 - Connectivity | 39-45 | |
Chapter 5 - Accessibility | 46-79 | |
Chapter 6 - Conclusions: Accomplishments and Needs | 80-81 | |
References | 82-84 | |
Capacity Technical Coordinating Committee | 85-85 |
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