Annotated Bibliography - SSTI

Title Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making
Authors Cambridge Systematics, Inc., et al.
Sponsor Transportation Research Board (TRB), SHRP 2 Report S2‐C02‐RR
Date 2009
Pages 126
Category
Note
Online
Summary
Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA), Economic Impact Assessment (EIA), Economic Performance
Measures, Modes: Motor Vehicles
Economic measures are described, but further consideration was deferred to a separate
study.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/shrp2/shrp2_S2‐C02‐RR.pdf
This report is part of the TRB Sharp2 research program into highway capacity. The
authors acknowledge that considerable analysis and understanding has been achieved
"of operations and maintenance ‐ related measures, such as pavement quality, bridge
deficiency, and safety; and capacity related measures such as volume‐to‐capacity ratio,
or level‐of‐service rating." The focus of the research is on "non‐traditional"
performance areas, which are described as less developed. These include
transportation, environment, economics, community, and cost. Seventeen performance
factors are described for these 5 areas, with two being described for economics:
economic impact and economic development.
A series of performance measures detail the other 4 factors, but the economic factors
are being developed as part of another Sharp 2 study: the C03 project, Interactions
between Transportation Capacity, Economic Systems, and Land Use merged with
Integrating Economic Considerations in Project Development. However, because many
measures could be used to assess more than one factor, measures are described for
other factors relating to accessibility and cost and also are relevant to economics.
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