Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS Making the Business Case for

The 17 chapters in this book, which evolved from a conference on measuring the contributions of ITS sponsored by the California Department of Transportation in February 2002, examine the costs and benefits of ITS in an economic and business policy context

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Transportation Research, Economics and Policy VOLUME 10

Editorial Board Yossi Berechman Department of Economics & Public Policy, Tel Aviv University, Israel Kenneth Small Department of Economics, University of California at Irvine, U.S.A.

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS Making the Business Case for ITS Investments

edited by

David Gillen David Levinson

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To Andraya and Andrew (David Gillen)

To Trinh Ann Carpenter (David Levinson)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

ix

1.

Assessing the Investment in ITS: An Introduction David Gillen and David Levinson

2.

Public-Private Partnering: ITS in Highway Investment David Lewis

17

3.

Benefit Measures, Values, and Future Impacts of ITS David Brand

25

4.

Making the Case for ITS Investment Douglass B. Lee, Jr.

39

5.

Bus Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Systems Mark Hickman

59

6.

Case Study: Impacts of Advanced Technology on a Small City Bus System Edward Sullivan and Jeffrey Gerfen

89

Beyond Benefits and Costs: Understanding Outcomes of ITS Deployments in Public Transit Genevieve Giuliano and Thomas O’Brien

99

7.

8.

Traffic Signal Control Systems Alex Skabardonis

9.

Evaluating Effectiveness of Ramp Meters: Evidence from the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut-off David Levinson and Lei Zhang

1

131

145 167

10.

Electronic Toll Collection and Variable Pricing Mark W. Burris

11.

Freeway Service Patrols: A Stated Preference Analysis of Insurance Values David Levinson, David Gillen, and Pavithra Parthasarathi

199

Advanced Traveler Information Systems: Relationships to Traveler Behavior Asad J. Khattak, Felipe Targa, and Youngbin Yim

217

Travel Time Reliability: Using Real-time Loop Detector Data to Estimate Mixed Logit Route Choice Henry X. Liu, Will Recker, and Anthony Chen

241

12.

13.

14.

Traffic Management Systems David Levinson and Wei Chen

263

15.

Advanced Traffic Management System Data Robert L. Bertini and Ahmed El-Geneidy

287

16.

ITS in Europe: An Economic Evaluation Reinaldo C. Garcia

315

17.

Mainstreaming Intelligent Transportation Systems: Findings from a Survey of California Leaders Elizabeth Deakin

18.

Information Systems to Improve Surface Transportation: Directions for Intelligent Transportation Systems Assessment and Development Thomas A. Horan

Glossary

333

349 371

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A number of people and institutions have contributed in a significant way