摘要: |
The Strategic Highway Research Program 2 has deployed a suite of spreadsheet tools and guidebooks for assessing the broader implications of transportation investments. These tools and guidebooks provide analysis frameworks to understand the relationships between the interactions of transportation supply and demand as interpreted in measures of effectiveness that, previously, have not been explicitly and broadly considered in transportation impact and alternatives analysis. These tools offer the potential to broaden the range of factors and considerations taken into account when measuring and explaining the benefits and impacts of transportation investment or disinvestment. There is a need to broaden and improve the understanding of a transportation project’s effectiveness, through better conceptualization of transportation investment impacts (for policy makers and analysts), and better communication techniques and tools (for the general public and for decision-makers). The EconWorks W.E.B. program has proposed to address the first of these two needs. |