Achieving Efficiency in Meeting Safety, Operations, Maintenance, and Air Quality Goals

Principal Investigator:

Shauna Hallmark, shallmar@iastate.edu (other projects)

Project Status: In Progress

Start Date: 04/01/2007
End Date: 03/31/2008


Research Objective: --Identify overlap between operations, safety, maintenance, and air quality

--Provide decision support tools that assess the impact of capital improvement goals in one area on the goals of other areas.

Project 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 out on opportunities to leverage funds and make better informed decisions overall.

There are a number of areas of overlap between capital improvements to improve operations, maintenance, safety, and air quality goals which 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 be used to more efficiently evaluate common capital projects that are used to meet agency goals in one area (operations, safety, air quality, and maintenance) but also have a significant impact on the others.

Potential Benefits of the Project

Tools that transportation agencies can use to make safety, operation, maintenance, and air quality decisions more efficiently.

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