Achieving Efficiency in Meeting Safety, Operations, Maintenance, and Air Quality Goals
Proposed South Ankeny Boulevard corridor looking south from 1st Street
Researcher(s)
Principal investigator: Shauna Hallmark, 515-294-5249, shallmar@iastate.edu (project list)
Other authors: Eric Fitzsimmons, Dave Plazak, Karina Hoth, Hillary Isebrands
Student researchers:
- Hillary Isebrands, 515-451-4888, hillaryi@iastate.edu
- Eric Fitzsimmons, 515-294-0253, efitz@iastate.edu
Project status
Completed
Start date: 04/01/07
End date: 11/30/08
Publications
Report: November 2008, Toolbox to Assess Tradeoffs between Safety, Operations, and Air Quality for Intersection and Access Management Strategies 10.7 mb (*pdf)
Related publications: Maximizing Improvements for Multiple Agency Goals 146 kb *pdf (Tech transfer summary) November 2008
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Sponsor(s)/partner(s)
Sponsor(s):Iowa Department of Transportation
Midwest Transportation Consortium
Minnesota Department of Transportation
About the research
Abstract: Significant transportation agency resources are allocated to meet maintenance, operations, safety, and air quality goals. Although there is a significant amount of overlap between these areas, decisions to meet agency goals in one area often do not consider goals in the others and, as a result, miss opportunities to leverage funds and make better informed decisions overall.
There are a number of areas of overlap between capital improvements designed to improve operations, maintenance, safety, and air quality goals that provide a rich opportunity to leverage funds and use resources more cost-effectively while meeting agency goals in two or more of the areas.
The objective of this research is to develop analytical tools that can efficiently evaluate common capital projects used to meet agency goals in one area (operations, safety, air quality, and maintenance) but that also have a significant impact on the others.