Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration

FINAL PROGRAM Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration April 8 9, 2008 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies Irvine, California Organized by Transportation Research Board Supported by Federal Highway Administration Office of Asset Management www.trb.org/conferences/2008/economicmodels

Improving the Analysis and Use of Highway Economic Models The Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration Conference brings together practitioners from state highway agencies, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), academia, and private industry to improve the analysis and use of highway economic models. Data integration efforts associated with economic modeling are an important focus of this conference. The intent of the program is to encourage free-flowing dialogue among modelers, those using model results, and those developing the data inputs. The conference covers topics involving all aspects of highway economic modeling. Topics of interest include the following: Zimmerman Data development and integration, including the use of Highway Performance Monitoring System data and other data inputs necessary to support highway economic modeling; Data analysis, including the use of highway economic analysis tools, such as the Highway Economic Requirements System State Version (HERS-ST); and Effective uses for the results of economic modeling, including strategies to overcome challenges in making HERS-ST (or other highway economic models, such as HDM-4 or other in-house tools) a useful tool within highway agencies. I encourage you to participate actively, discussing the successes and challenges you have experienced in using highway economic requirements modeling to improve decisions in transportation organizations. Kathryn A. Zimmerman Conference Planning Team Chair President, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc. Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8 9, 2008 Kathryn A. Zimmerman, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc., Chair Richard D. Arnold, Oregon Department of Transportation Tim Baker, Colorado Department of Transportation Coco Briseno, California Department of Transportation James Hall, University of Illinois Vicki Miller, Federal Highway Administration Conference Planning Team Robert Mooney, Federal Highway Administration Jolanda Prozzi, University of Texas at Austin Darren Timothy, Federal Highway Administration TRB Staff Thomas M. Palmerlee David Floyd The Transportation Research Board is one of six major divisions of the National Research Council, which serves as an independent adviser to the federal government and others on scientific and technical questions of national importance. The National Research Council is jointly administered by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. The Board s varied activities annually engage about 7,000 engineers, scientists, and other transportation researchers and practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, all of whom contribute their expertise in the public interest. The program is supported by state transportation departments, federal agencies including the component administrations of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other organizations and individuals interested in the development of transportation. www.trb.org Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration 2

Federal Highway Administration Workshops FHWA s two-part workshops are offered at the following times: Monday, April 7, 2008, 1:00 5 p.m. (First shuttle from Hyatt, 12:15 12:55 p.m.; first shuttle back to Hyatt, 4:30 5:10 p.m.; approximately 40-minute intervals) Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 8:00 a.m. noon (First shuttle from Hyatt, 7:20 8:00 a.m.; first shuttle back to Hyatt, 6:20 7:40 p.m.; approximately 40-minute intervals) Principles and Practices of Data Integration for Transportation Asset Management Board Room Vicki Miller, Federal Highway Administration, Facilitator The data integration workshop focuses on the basic concepts and steps involved in the process of data integration. The workshop consists of lecture sessions as well as hands-on exercises. Examples of new techniques, data collection methods, and reference systems involved are provided in the workshop. The lecture session introduces the importance of, the role of, and the need for data integration for better asset management. The group exercises allow the participants to discuss a wide range of issues pertaining to data integration and to work together to plan a data integration strategy and implementation plan. Application areas may include highway pavement condition forecasting management, highway safety and incident management, and highway investment needs. Potential participants include managers and staff of state and local highway agencies, FHWA division offices, private industry, and academia. Agenda Introduction Asset Management Basics Data Integration Case Studies Group Workshop Workshop Summary Highway Economic Requirements System State Version Huntington Robert Mooney, Federal Highway Administration, Facilitator The HERS-ST software is an asset management decision tool used to analyze highway needs for programming and planning at the state and MPO level. HERS-ST answers questions such as the following: What level of capital expenditure is justified on benefit cost grounds? What user cost level will result from a given stream of investment? What investment level is required to achieve a certain level of performance? What is the cost, over 20 years, of correcting all existing and accruing highway deficiencies? The HERS-ST workshop will provide a hands-on demonstration of the software and how to utilize the decision tool to analyze highway infrastructure. Agenda Overview of HERS-ST Exercise 1: Getting Started Exercise 2: Adjusting Initial Settings Exercise 3: Working with the Highway Data and an Overview of State Improvements Feature Break Overview of Tabular Output and Section Output Exercise 4: Creating and Modifying Charts and an Overview of Ad Hoc Tables and Reports Exercise 5: GIS Features Wrap-up (final question-and-answer session, general discussion) Preconference Workshops, Monday and Tuesday, April 7 8, 2008 3 Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration

Conference Program TUESDAY, APRIL 8 11:30 a.m. 12:50 p.m. Buses from Hyatt Regency (First shuttle leaves at 11:30 a.m. and returns approximately 40 minutes later.) Noon 1:00 p.m., Dining Room Lunch 1:00 1:45 p.m., Auditorium Opening Session Conference Objectives and Organization Kathryn A. Zimmerman, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc. Directions in Economic Modeling Butch Wlaschin, Federal Highway Administration California Economic Modeling and the Governor s Strategic Growth Plan Coco Briseno, Chief, Division of Transportation System Information, California Department of Transportation 1:45 3:15 p.m., Auditorium Data Development and Integration Issues General Session Tim Baker, Colorado Department of Transportation, presiding Oregon s Experience: Data Development for Highway Economic Requirements System Richard Arnold, Oregon Department of Transportation ArcGIS Extension HERS-ST Data Preparation Tool Vidya Mysore, Florida Department of Transportation Developing HPMS Data at the MPO Level Craig Casper, Pikes Peak Area MPO HERS-ST: A Sensitivity Analysis and Customization Omar Smadi, Center for Transportation Research and Education, Iowa State University 3:15 3:45 p.m. Break 3:45 5:15 p.m., Huntington, Board Room, Balboa, and Auditorium Data Development and Integration Issues Breakout Sessions (four groups in separate rooms) Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Discussion Questions What data requirements must a non-hers-st user meet before getting started? How has your agency been able to meet these requirements? How long did it take for you to consider your agency to be fully functional? What organizational issues (excluding data integration) has your agency had to address to meet the requirements of your economic analysis model? What data integration issues has your agency had to address? How have you addressed these issues? How has your agency assessed and improved the quality of the data being used by your economic analysis model? How vulnerable are your data sources to changing data requirements from various users and to budget fluctuations? Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration 4

5:30 7:00 p.m., Atrium Posters and Reception Using the Highway Economic Requirements System and the Travel Demand Model to Facilitate Long- Range Planning in Oregon Richard Arnold, Oregon Department of Transportation Use of HERS in an MPO Long-Range Planning Process Craig Casper, Pikes Peak Area MPO The Evolution of HERS-ST Usage at New Mexico Department of Transportation Roy Cornelius, New Mexico Department of Transportation Development and Implementation of the Montana Highway Economic Analysis Tool (HEAT) Hal Fossum, Montana Department of Transportation Proposed Framework for Enhancing the Economic Benefit Evaluation of HERS-ST Konstantina Gkritza and Asish Seeboo, Iowa State University Making the Case for Data: Going Beyond the EV Sections Daryl Greer, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet A Metastudy of Transportation Investment in the Texas Economy Ron Hagquist, Texas Department of Transportation Effects of Deterioration Rates on the Life-Cycle Costs of Interstate Highways Denise Krueger, College of Mount St. Joseph Working with Your Highway Data in HERS-ST Robert Mooney and Thomas Timcho, Federal Highway Administration Lost in Translation: Financial Managers and Maintenance Engineers: Two Experts Divided by a Common Language? Charles Oldham, Halcrow, Inc. HPMS Reassessment and Potential Impacts on HERS-ST Darren Timothy, Federal Highway Administration 6:20 7:40 p.m. Buses return to Hyatt Regency (Shuttle leaves at 6:20 p.m. and returns approximately 40 minutes later.) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 6:45 8:00 a.m. Buses from Hyatt Regency (First shuttle leaves at 6:45 a.m. and returns approximately 40 minutes later.) 7:15 8:00 a.m., Dining Room Breakfast 8:00 9:30 a.m., Auditorium Effective Uses of Economic Modeling Results General Session Richard Arnold, Oregon Department of Transportation, presiding Challenges and Strategies in Employing HERS-ST in the Development of Regional Transportation Plans in Oregon MPOs Satvinder Sandhu, U.S. Department of Transportation Assessing the Benefits of Highway Economic Requirements System State Version Daisuke Mizusawa, University of Delaware Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8 9, 2008 5 Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration

Highway Investment Needs Analysis for the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission Darren Timothy, Federal Highway Administration Assessing Financial Analysis Strategies in Regional Transportation Planning by Using HERS-ST as a BCA Tool Yukun Dong, University of Delaware 9:30 10:00 a.m. Break 10:00 11:30 a.m., Huntington, Board Room, Balboa, and Auditorium Effective Uses of Economic Modeling Results Breakout Sessions (four groups in separate rooms) Discussion Questions How does your agency use the results of an economic analysis model for planning and programming activities? What are some other potential (or real) uses of the analysis results? What issues have you had to overcome to effectively communicate the results of an economic analysis to associates? to upper-level management? What strategies have you used, or do you think could be used, to be even more effective? Do the results of an economic analysis match the recipients expectations? Why or why not? What would make the results better match expectations? 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m., Dining Room Lunch 12:30 2:00 p.m., Auditorium Economic Analysis Tools General Session Robert Mooney, Federal Highway Administration, presiding Recent and Future Updates to National HERS Darren Timothy, Federal Highway Administration Adaptation of HERS-ST Models for the South Carolina Interactive Interstate Management System William Robert, Cambridge Systematics Chicago New York City Corridor Analysis Using HERS-ST Analysis Tool for the FHWA Multimodal Analysis Project Maks Alam, Battelle California Transportation Benefit Cost Analysis Model Mahmoud Mahdavi, California Department of Transportation 2:00 2:30 p.m. Break Wednesday, April 9, 2008 2:30 4:00 p.m., Huntington, Board Room, Balboa, and Auditorium Economic Analysis Tools Breakout Sessions (four groups in separate rooms) Discussion Questions Why should an agency invest resources in the application of highway economic modeling tools? What benefits and costs should it expect? What can an agency realistically expect to get out of an economic analysis tool? How does this compare with, contrast with, or complement other asset management tools such as pavement and bridge management systems? What are the limitations of economic analysis tools today? What features should these tools provide to address the future needs of the agency? Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration 6

4:00 5:00 p.m., Auditorium Summary of Breakout Sessions and Future Direction Development and Integration Issues Tim Baker, Colorado Department of Transportation Effective Uses of Economic Analysis Tools Richard Arnold, Oregon Department of Transportation Economic Analysis Tools Robert Mooney, Federal Highway Administration Closing Remarks Kathryn A. Zimmerman, Applied Pavement Technology, Inc. 5:00 6:00 p.m. Buses to John Wayne Orange County Airport and Hyatt Regency (First shuttle leaves at 4:00 p.m. and returns approximately 1 hour later.) 5:30 7:00 p.m., Board Room Conference Planning Team (by invitation) Hotel Information Hyatt Regency Newport Beach Newport Beach, CA 92660 Phone: 949-729-1234 Hotel Airport Shuttle A complimentary shuttle bus runs to and from John Wayne Orange County Airport, 6:00 a.m. 10:00 p.m. The shuttle leaves the hotel every hour on the hour and picks up at the airport at approximately 15 minutes past the hour, outside the baggage claim in the ground transportation area. Beckman Center Owned and operated by the National Academies, the award-winning Beckman Conference Center is a first-class facility sited on 7 acres bordering the cities of Irvine and Newport Beach. For information about the center, directions, and parking, go to http://www7.nationalacademies.org/beckman/. Wednesday, April 9, 2008 7 Highway Economic Requirements Modeling and Data Integration

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