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Paik, Seong Mok. "Developing Sustainable Road Maintenance Strategies by Integrating Carbon Footprint and Road User Costs." Thesis, Curtin University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77185.

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This research aims to develop an innovative framework to evaluate the social and environmental impacts of road maintenance activities and integrate these impacts to enable sustainable road maintenance decision making in Australia. The usefulness of the framework, including the indicators, their calculations and potential implementations, is also presented, using real life scenarios. The road agencies can usefully adopt the results of this study for developing sustainable maintenance activities, such as selecting truly sustainable maintenance activities.

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Abayneh, Alembo Zinash. "User delay costs and uncertainty in the traffic forecast for road projects." Thesis, KTH, Väg- och banteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-149465.

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There are experimental based software packages as well as traffic simulation models that are used for analyzing life cycle cost of road projects. Among those our study was focused on currently available models to analyze the road user delay costs and to identify factors affecting road user delay costs. Sensitivity analyses were performed to identify the important factors that influence the user delay cost. Finally, prediction of future traffic demand as well as user delay cost, using the binomial lattice model, were presented to include the uncertainty of future traffic and user delay costs. T

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Adebiyi, Jeremiah. "An Enhanced Framework to Compute Road User Costs Associated with Construction Zones." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3966.

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The monetary quantification of inconveniences caused to the road users by ongoing construction activities is known as the Road Users Costs (RUCs). While the importance of RUCs is widely known, some highway agencies lack an appropriate methodology to compute RUCs. Thus, there is a need to develop a framework to compute RUCs that can be adopted quickly by highway agencies. This study reviewed existing literature and conducted a nationwide survey to identify and summarize the current practices of computing RUCs. It developed an enhanced framework and tool to compute RUCs that balances the effort

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Adebiyi, Jeremiah, Joseph Dr Shrestha, and Mohammad Dr Moin. "Current Practices and Methodologies of Calculating Road User Costs Based on a National Survey." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2021/presentations/7.

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While regular maintenance of roads and bridges are essential to ensure a high level of service for road users, road users typically do not prefer having to drive through a construction zone because of the lower speed and increased possibilities of crashes. These road user inconveniences are typically ignored or not given much weight while planning, developing, and awarding construction and maintenance projects. Typically, a contractor with the lowest bid is awarded a construction project irrespective of whether the project will be completed in a shorter or longer duration if the duration is wi

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Elias, Ana Maria. "Development of a systematic approach for the inclusion of accident risk factors in the calculation of road user costs for construction zones." [Florida] : State University System of Florida, 1998. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/amd0041.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 1998.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 390 p.; also contains graphics (some in color). Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-389).

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jia, jianmin. "Multi-Criteria Evaluation in Support of the Decision-Making Process in Highway Construction Projects." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3202.

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The decision-making process in highway construction projects identifies and selects the optimal alternative based on the user requirements and evaluation criteria. The current practice of the decision-making process does not consider all construction impacts in an integrated decision-making process. This dissertation developed a multi-criteria evaluation framework to support the decision-making process in highway construction projects. In addition to the construction cost and mobility impacts, reliability, safety, and emission impacts are assessed at different evaluation levels and used as inp

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Lloyd, Evan Robert. "A model for the economic analysis of road projects in an urban network with interrelated incremental traffic assignment method." University of Western Australia. Economics Discipline Group, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0083.

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[Truncated abstract] In an urban network, any change to the capacity of a road or an intersection will generally result in some traffic changing its route. In addition the presence of intersections creates the need for frequent stops. These stops increase the fuel consumption by anywhere between thirty to fifty percent as evidenced by published standardised vehicle fuel consumption figures for urban and for country driving. Other components of vehicle operating costs such as tyre and brake wear and time costs will also be increased by varying amounts. Yet almost all methods in use for economi

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Schelin, Eva. "Road user charging for heavy goods vehicles - Implementation aspects." Licentiate thesis, Norrköping : Department of Science and technology, Linköpings universitet, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-12052.

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Ates, Ozan K. "A Decision Making Framework for Road User Cost Analysis along Freeway Work Zone Projects." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1389345484.

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Heyns, Werner. "Urban congestion charging : road pricing as a traffic reduction measure / W. Heyns." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/523.

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Urban traffic congestion is recognised as a major problem by most people in world cities. However, the implementation of congestion reducing measures on a wide scale eludes most world cities suffering from traffic congestion, as many oppose the notion of road pricing and despite economists and transportation professionals having advocated its benefits for a number of decades. The effects of road pricing have attracted considerable attention from researchers examining its effects, as it is thought to hold the key in understanding and overcoming some inherent obstacles to implementation. Unfortu

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Adams, Michael Roy. "Development of a User Cost Estimation Procedure for Work Zones." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd860.pdf.

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Ekström, Joakim. "Designing Urban Road Congestion Charging Systems : Models and Heuristic Solution Approaches." Licentiate thesis, Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15747.

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<p>The question of how to design a congestion pricing scheme is difficult to answer and involves a number of complex decisions. This thesis is devoted to the quantitative parts of designing a congestion pricing scheme with link tolls in an urban car traffic network. The problem involves finding the number of tolled links, the link toll locations and their corresponding toll level. The road users are modeled in a static framework, with elastic travel demand.</p><p>Assuming the toll locations to be fixed, we recognize a level setting problem as to find toll levels which maximize the social surpl

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Gärds, Joacim, and Martin Oscarsson. "Exploring the use of GIS-based Least-cost Corridors for Designing Alternative Highway Alignments." Thesis, KTH, Geoinformatik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254595.

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Finding an optimal route for a new highway alignment is a task which requires a lot of resources. In the planning phase, choosing the location of a new highway alignment is very important as it will heavily affect the total construction cost. However, the perfect location of a new highway alignment is ambiguous depending on many parameters. The objective of this study is to explore the use of Geographical Information Systems when designing candidate locations, in the planning phase of the construction, of new highway alignments. This will be executed by finding least-cost corridors in a raster

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Sharpe, Benjamin Rodriguez. "Examining the Costs and Benefits of Technology Pathways for Reducing Fuel Use and Emissions from On-road Heavy-duty Vehicles in California." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3596948.

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<p> In California and many places around the world, exhaust from heavy-duty (HD) diesel vehicles accounts for a major fraction of criteria pollutant emissions such as particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), and HD vehicles are a significant consumer of petroleum-based fuels and a growing contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. California has been a leader in implementing a broad range of policy measures that promote the development and deployment of fuels and technologies to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from HD vehicles. This dissertation formulates an analytical me

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Červený, Richard. "Cost-benefit analýza obchvatu města Roudnice nad Labem." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76192.

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The present thesis is concerned with the construction of by-pass road of the town Roudnice nad Labem and its potential impacts. It briefly describes traffic situation in Roudnice and possible solutions of traffic issues of the town. Theoretical section of the thesis defines a cost-benefit analysis and other assessment methods used for civic projects. The thesis also focuses on external cost and the contribution traffic brings in general as well as with respect to the particular area. The data acquired have been used for drawing a project CBA which addresses the matter of civic efficiency of th

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Hunt, Philip Duncan. "Analysis of roughness deterioration of bitumen sealed unbound granular pavements for use in road asset management modeling." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36178/1/36178_Hunt_2002.pdf.

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The road system under the care and control of the State of Queensland, Australia has an estimated replacement value of $23 Billion (US$12 billion), excluding structures. Pavement management systems for recording, rating, and predicting a pavement's condition are used to prudently manage this large asset. Tne of the fundamental components of a pavement management system is the method of determining a pavement's rate of deterioration over time. Throughout the world, "pavement roughness" is one of the most widely used methods of measuring the performance of a pavement. Queensland is a large St

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Hofmeyr, Melanie Kemp. "Modified simplification of HDM-4 methodology for the calculation of vehicle operating cost to incorporate terrain and expanded to all vehicle types for use in the Western Cape context F HDM-4 METHODOLOGY FOR THE CALCULATION OF VEHICLE OPERATING COST TO INCORPORATE TERRAIN AND EXPANDED TO ALL VEHICLE TYPES FOR USE IN THE WESTERN CAPE CONTEXT." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96824.

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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION The Western Cape Government (WCG) uses Vehicle Operating Cost (VOC) as part of their Road Management System since 1992. VOC is used in the process of prioritisation of maintenance projects as well as for the identification of economically viable maintenance strategies and is thus an integral part of the system. In 2001 changes to the VOC calculation methodology in the system to Highway Development and Management (HDM-4) system methodology occurred. The reasons were twofold – to bring the calculation method in line

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Slánský, Josef. "Zvyšování bezpečnosti v dopravě s ohledem na oceňování lidského života." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85257.

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This diploma thesis examines the issue of acceptability of a particular transportation project. It is objective is to capture the expenses which arise from a traffic accident. on this basis the goal is to express all expenses of the human death and to compare them with the specific transportation project. In addition to this, different means of accident prevention are to be figured out within the support of public safety. The whole thesis is split into four parts. The first part describes the accidents on Czech roads. The second part deals with the specific expression methodology of the human

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Palčák, Andrej. "Ekonomická efektivnost projektů silničních komunikací." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-224773.

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This master's thesis is focused on solving the issues associated with economic efficiency of construction and operation of road communications' projects. The paper defines significant socioeconomic benefits the operation of the road communications provides for the users and surroundings. It offers a summary of theoretical findings about the economic efficiency's calculation method, analyses the influence of the socioeconomic benefits on the final economic efficiency of the project and based on the results of the analysis it suggests and recommends provisions for investors, compliance of which

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Tiwari, Shashank. "Quantifying Road User Costs with Heterogeneous Value of Motorists' Travel Time." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151336.

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The state transportation agencies (STAs) in the United States are mandated by federal rule to carry out work-zone impact assessment for highway rehabilitation projects. The work zone impact assessment requires calculating road user costs (RUCs) which is the sum of vehicle operating costs, accident costs, and value of time (VOT). The term ‘value of time’ refers to monetary equivalent of travel time wasted due to rehabilitation projects. In current practice, STAs assume VOT as homogeneous within their respective states. This leads to inaccurate RUCs calculations and poses many misapplications.

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Schnabel, Richard S. "A literature review of methods to determine road user costs in construction zones." 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/8626.

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As freeway construction increases with the need to expand, repair and maintain the existing infrastructure, the desire to quantify the inconvenience or delay costs to the user of the freeway undergoing-construction has increased and become necessary to assist in determining total project impact costs and determine penalties or lane rentals to contractors. This paper will review critical variables which impact delay costs, delay avoidance strategies and various methods and models developed to quantifying these costs. Overall, the amount of research specifically in this area is limited as intere

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Jaipuria, Sunny. "Impact of performance goal on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2399.

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Performance goals for a highway system are an indication of the desired system condition, and the level of service to be provided to its users. Setting the appropriate performance goals has a significant impact on the way highway agencies conduct business. With growing needs and limited resources, the consequences of setting different levels of performance goals should be examined and compared to optimize the highway infrastructure needs at the network level. Three interacting sets of costs are typically considered for a complete economic appraisal of highway projects: construction, maintenan

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Ughanze, Ugonna Uzodinma. "Is LED use in traffic signals viable in the Texas Department of Transportation, Houston District?" Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6186.

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Light Emitting Diode (LED) is used in traffic signals and highway illumination in the Texas Department of Transportation, Houston District (TxDOT). The thesis focuses on the cost of maintenance of the LED for signals on the highway system in the Houston District. This LED cost includes human and capital resources which are compared against the cost associated with the incandescent bulb used in traffic signals at a similar location in Houston. The analysis leads to actionable decisions to see if total migration of the LED is advisable or not, amidst budgetary constraints and the benefits thereo

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Kekana, R. D. (Robert Dipitseng). "An economic impact assessment of toll roads, with specific reference to the impact on alternative roads between the Pumulani and Hammanskraal toll gates." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23991.

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The erection of tollgates along the N1 freeway has triggered a great deal of interest. As a result of the toll fees, traffic has been diverted to alternative roads. This study investigates how traffic diverted from the toll road affect the welfare of users of the alternative road. The literature review provides a theoretical framework of economic impact assessment and road pricing. Furthermore, the literature study reviews previous studies of a similar nature and compare them with the findings of this study. There is no conclusive evidence that diversion of traffic from the N1 causes congestio

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Crals, Evy [Verfasser]. "Tradable rights and transaction costs : a comparative analysis of alternative policy instruments for emissions, road use and public deficits / Evy Crals." 2006. http://d-nb.info/978460979/34.

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(11211147), Carlos Andres Fontanilla Diaz. "ROADS, DEFORESTATION, AND GHG EMISSIONS: THE ROLE OF FOREST GOVERNANCE AND CARBON TAX POLICY IN PARA AND MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL." Thesis, 2021.

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<p>This research explores the impact of road infrastructure on deforestation, the role of forest governance and a carbon tax/credit mechanism in mitigating the effect on land use change and subsequent GHG emissions, with application to the states of Pará and Mato Grosso in Brazil. Few studies have addressed how policies to protect forested land affect the rate of deforestation associated with road and infrastructure improvement. This research makes three main contributions to the literature of roads and deforestation: 1) the concept of cost of access to the “closest” market in terms of time (e

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