ABE20 Draft Research Needs Statements (RNS)
- Analyzing Travelers’ Responses to C/AVs based on Previous Technology Adoption Experiences and Developing a Deployment Roadmap (37kb docx)
- Economic analysis tools that help transportation agencies plan for C/AVs (19kb docx)
- Long-term travel behavioral changes due to Connected/automated vehicles (21 kb docx)
- Multimodal Tradeoffs for Investment Decision-Making (14kb docx)
- There is a real need to get realistic estimates of the mode shift potential from investment in these highway alternative modes
- there is increased recognition of the externalities produced in the transportation sector
- The idea of investment for system-wide efficiency, is something that needs to be explored
- Leading: Starr McMullen
- Reverse Auctions to Renew and Expand Public Transportation in the US (23kb docx)
- Issues with the public provision of goods
- Issues with current “high bid auctions” for subsidies
- Advantages of Reverse Auctions in Expanding Access to Transportation
- Leading: Ralph Erickson/Ric Geddes
- Estimation of Cross Price and Own Price Elasticities (31kb docx)
- Estimation of own and cross-price elasticities of different surface roads and across modes
- Attempt to develop updated own price and cross-price elasticities for various road pricing
- Development of best practices as to pricing and service rules based upon market scale and geography
- Leading: Jonathan Peters, and Cameron Gordon
- Automated vehicles : Impact on travel behavior and cost of travel. Impact on VOT if people can work in their vehicles
- Leading: Nancy Bergeron
- Volunteer: Karen White
- Data for Decisions and Performance Measures to put economic measures of the benefits of research
- Leading: Nancy Bergeron
- Volunteer:Rimon Rafiah, Jim Gillespie, Yiyi Wang
- Wider economic benefits of large transportation projects and network configurations - problems of measurement and evaluation under consideration of risk and uncertainty
- Leading: Dr. Werner Rotthengatter
- Permanent controlling of cost and benefit streams for transportation projects in the context of building information modeling - a concept for integrating cost and benefit calculations into BIM
- Leading: Dr. Werner Rotthengatter
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Surety Best Practices for Public Transportation (15kb docx)
- A "Surety" is a performance bond required by federal level to be posted by construction contractors
- Perhaps reach out to other committees (revenue and finance, public transportation) for joint development
- Perhaps include international best practices
- Leading: Robena Reid
- Volunteer: Nicolas Estupinan
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Economic Principles in Advance Disaster Planning (15kb docx)
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Impact of Doubling Carpooling and Vanpooling (15kb docx)
- To provide an economic basis for estimating the benefits of increasing carpooling and vanpooling
- Methods of incentivizing the change of behavior
- Leading: Paul Minot
- Volunteers: Mohammad Amin, Bismark Agbelie
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Benefit Cost Analysis of Anticipated CAFE Standards (20kb docx)
- Leading: Mike Lawrence, Gabe Roth, Ralph Erickson, Don Pickrell
- Volunteers: Bismark Agbelie, Karen White, Gabriel Roth, Georgina Santos, Kara Kockelman, Alex Marach
- Behavioral Aspects of Parking Pricing
- Assessing the Economic Benefit of Transportation Infrastructure Investment in a Mature Surface Transportation System
- Cambridge Systematics
TRB Project and
PDF Report
- Section 3 of the report has some big picture economic issues that deserve research and are part way to being RNS statements already
- Volunteers: Sisinnio Concas, Kara Kockelman, Susan Binder, Shiva Shrestha, Sayba Mishra, Jon Peters
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Completed Research Needs Statements (RNS)
2014
- Taxi Usage, Pricing, and Urban Transport - Technical Analysis (20kb docx)
- Per trip car usage markets as a component of urban mobility
- Leading: Jon Peters
- Volunteers: Karen White, Dan Graham, Nicolas Estupinan, Gabriel Roth
- Taxi Usage, Pricing, and Urban Transport - Optimal Regulation (20kb docx)
- Per trip car usage markets as a component of urban mobility
- Leading: Jon Peters
- Volunteers: Karen White, Dan Graham, Nicolas Estupinan, Gabriel Roth
2013
2012
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