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原文传递 Cost/Benefit Analysis For Transit ITS: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

题名：	Cost/Benefit Analysis For Transit ITS: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
作者：	Carol L. Schweiger; J. Buck Marks
关键词：	Cost/Benefit Analysis; ITS
摘要：	1 The design, procurement, and implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for transit have not always been supported by comprehensive cost/benefit analyses. Instead, a majority of ITS deployments in the U.S. transit industry have been justified for one or more of the following reasons: ?Maintaining operations at the same or better level of service with less public resources ?Replacing outdated technology and/or processes ?Reducing reliance on labor-intensive activities ?Providing better customer service, including improved traveler information ?Increasing ridership ?Improving safety for operators and customers As more and more transit agencies look to advanced technology to help improve their operational efficiencies and provide better service, and as funding levels either stay relatively constant or decline, cost/benefit analyses are becoming a more important element in the justification of new technology deployment both for transit agencies and their funding sources. This increased emphasis on cost/benefit justification has drawn increasing attention to the challenges associated with performing a sound, comprehensive, understandable and believable analysis for a particular transit property. This paper discusses these challenges in three parts: the good, which is the availability of cost/benefit data; the bad, which is the complexity associated with using the available data; and the ugly, which is the development of a credible, sufficiently detailed cost/benefit analysis that will be used by an agency to justify technology procurement and deployment. The paper uses a representative cost/benefit analysis conducted by the authors for the Fort Worth Transportation Authority regarding its planned ITS implementation to illustrate these challenges.
总页数：	ITS America. Meeting (9th : 1999 : Washington, D.C..). New thinking in transportation : conference proceedings. 1999. pp11
报告类型：	科技报告