Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS

Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS
Author: David Gillen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1402078749

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. Section 1 examines the broad theme of how and what ITS contributes to the economy and how one makes a business case for ITS. Section 2 includes three chapters on ITS applications in mass transit. Section 3 explores ITS applications in the automobile/highway system. Section 4 considers integrative issues including how ITS is perceived and how it can be positioned to improve surface transportation. This volume will be especially useful to researchers and policy makers working in transportation, transportation engineering, and the economic analysis of transportation systems.

High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes Evaluation II

High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes Evaluation II
Author: Peter T. Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2004
Genre: Express highways
ISBN:

This report evaluated the safety and public opinion of HOV lanes assessed by a survey and accident data. Survey results indicate a strong support for HOV lanes. A need for outreach programs to promote the benefits of lanes is discussed. Also, stricter enforcement, construction of direct on-ramps and off-ramps and installation of prominent signs to increase public awareness is recommended.

High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lane Marketing Manual

High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lane Marketing Manual
Author: John W. Billheimer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1994
Genre: High occupancy vehicle lanes
ISBN:

This High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Marketing Manual is designed to provide marketing and HOV professionals with practical guidelines for improving the public awareness, understanding, acceptance, and use of HOV facilities. The organization of the manual features four main sections. The first section, Introduction, contains highlights from case studies of HOV marketing experience and summarizes a few key principles of successful marketing gleaned from these studies. The next main section, Planning the Campaign, addresses such key topics as market research, campaign strategy, marketing materials, and constituency building. The third main section, Implementing the Campaign, covers media relations, advertising placement, promotion, community relations, and ongoing marketing activities. The last major section, Monitoring and Evaluation, discusses the need to monitor and assess the marketing campaign, public response, and HOV lane performance. Finally, Appendices contain sample marketing materials from a variety of HOV projects, project data, the case studies themselves, and a list of contacts who have had experience marketing HOV lanes in various parts of the country.