It is commonly understood that not all highways have the same level of importance in supporting economic and social activities. It is necessary to establish preservation priorities and long-term service objectives to help rationally determine resources allocation. Traffic volumes and road conditions are among the most commonly used factors in defining priority for preservation. These factors cannot directly provide economic explanation to investment decision. This paper proposes the use of road user costs on highway sections to directly link preservation priority to transportation economics. Road user costs are calculated for all highway sections in Saskatchewan and it is found that for some sections, the costs can be hundreds of times higher than on other sections. The fact that road users spend much more on some highway sections is useful information to justify better service. Road user costs are also found to be highly correlated with corresponding traffic volume on highway sections.


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    Title :

    Feasibility of Using Network Level Highway User Costs in Highway Preservation Decision-Making in Saskatchewan


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Second International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety ; 2013 ; Wuhan, China


    Published in:

    ICTIS 2013 ; 1097-1102


    Publication date :

    2013-06-11




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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