摘要: |
The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) located in Cincinnati, is engaged in a process to improve its ability to plan transportation improvements through the use of economic analysis methods. These methods are intended to augment OKIs existing evaluation approaches to small- and large-scale transportation projects. For analysis of individual projects in the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), OKI staff utilizes a Prioritization Process, in which scores are applied to a host of transportation, planning, and cost factors. Projects are then ranked according to total scores. In the past, OKI made occasional use of economic analysis for large corridor projects, although typically this analysis was limited to very large projects and was performed by outside experts. To attain broader application of benefit-cost techniques and also reduce the cost of such analyses, OKI has recently explored methods to do in-house economic analyses of surface transportation projects. As part of this effort, OKI investigated the potential use of the FHWAs Surface Transportation Efficiency Analysis Model (STEAM) software for the analysis of large projects and clusters of smaller projects. / Availability Note: Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA, 22161, USA. |