Road User Costs for Highway Construction Projects Involving a Lane Closure

Jaehyun Choi
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Jaehyun Choi: School of Architectural Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education (Koreatech), Chungnam 31253, Korea

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-12

Abstract: While for years most American State Highway Agencies (SHAs) have performed Road User Cost (RUC) calculations, no uniformity from state to state has been established. There is scant research available that documents the testing and validation of existing RUC calculation methods for highway rehabilitation projects. Especially scarce are studies addressing the unique problem of accurately calculating RUC in the event of lane closures. This research addresses this problem by describing and comparing two methods of making such calculations: A manual method developed by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), and adopted by many other state agencies, such as the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), and a commercial software package.

Keywords: road user cost; highway rehabilitation; lane closures calculation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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