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Title:

COST-EFFECTIVENESS MODELS FOR DETERMINING PRIORITIES IN STATE AVIATION SYSTEMS (ABRIDGMENT)

Accession Number:

00184218

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/03611981

Abstract:

Two models, to be used in assigning priorities among new airport construction projects and improvement projects at existing airports, are presented. Within them, factors normally considered subjectively have been quantified. The airport entry model analyzes both proposed and existing airports being considered for inclusion within a state aviation system and ranks them with respect to their effects on the airport system and in relation to the communities they service. The improvement evaluation model measures the incremental benefit that an improvement project will have on a single airport. Both models use similar criteria: safety (e.g., projects which rectify serious safety defects have priority over those rectifying less serious defects; the seriousness of a defect being determined by the severity of a resultant incident and its probability of occurrence), efficiency (e.g. airport access savings, operational efficiency, and in the case of remote locations, amount of reliance of an area on air transportation to provide basic and emergency needs), environmental (a project generating less environmental conflict would be rated higher than one which generated more), economic development (e.g., transportation improvements in an area where greater economic growth is considered desirable would have priority over those four areas where less growth is desired), and costs (e.g. capital costs of building an airport, the resale value of an existing facility, or the annual capital cost of an improvement project).

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Special Committee on Air Transport Activities of the Transportation Research Board. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411497

Authors:

Haney, Dan G
Cohn, Stephen G
Sorensen, Marjorie

Pagination:

pp 9-11

Publication Date:

1977

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 655
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Conference:

56th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1977-1-24 to 1977-1-28

ISBN:

0309026849

Media Type:

Digital/other

Uncontrolled Terms:

Airport construction; Efficiency; Models

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Construction; Economics; Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Terminals and Facilities

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Dec 29 1978 12:00AM

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