Transportation Decision Making Principles of Project Evaluation and Programming 1st Edition by Kumares Sinha, Samuel Labi 9780471747321 0471747327

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ISBN 10: 0471747327

ISBN 13: 9780471747321

Author: Kumares C. Sinha, Samuel Labi

This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decision making in transportation project development and programming, which can help transportation professionals to optimize their investment choices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies for evaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs and impacts are taken into consideration.

The text’s logical organization gets readers started with a solid foundation in basic principles and then progressively builds on that foundation. Topics covered include:

• Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimating travel demand, and costing transportation projects

• Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts for such factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operating costs

• Evaluating a project’s impact on economic development and land use as well as its impact on society and culture

• Assessing a project’s environmental impact, including air quality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics

• Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multiple performance criteria

• Programming transportation investments so that resources can be optimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-wide goals

Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followed by a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation is discussed and available software for performing evaluations is presented. At the end of each chapter, readers are provided resources for detailed investigation of particular topics. These include Internet sites and publications of international and domestic agencies and research institutions. The authors also provide a companion Web site that offers updates, data for analysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decision making.

Given that billions of dollars are spent each year on transportation systems in the United States alone, and that there is a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision making for cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this text should be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers, and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is an ideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysis and evaluation.

Table of contents:

1. Introductory Concepts in Transportation Decision Making

2. Performance Measures in Transportation Evaluation

3. Estimating Transportation Demand

4. Transportation Costs

5. Travel-Time Impacts

6. Evaluation of Safety Impacts

7. Vehicle Operating Cost Impacts

8. Economic Efficiency Impacts

9. Economic Development Impacts

10. Air Quality Impacts

11. Noise Impacts

12. Impacts on Wetlands and Other Ecosystems

13. Impacts on Water Resources

14. Visual Impacts

15. Impacts on Energy Use

16. Land-Use Impacts

17. Social and Cultural Impacts

18. Evaluation of Transportation Projects and Programs Using Multiple Criteria

19. Use of Geographical and Other Information Systems

20. Transportation Programming

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