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About CTC OUR TEAM Technical Communications for Transportation Technical communications for transportation professionals Show the value of your research program in clear, about CTC PROGRAM compelling ways. CTC & Associates will help you COMMUNICATIONS develop performance measures, annual reports, CTC & Associates provides technical newsletters (print and online), videos and communications services for the websites that drive change. transportation sector. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the firm serves state departments of transportation, local road agencies, associations, universities and national Capture the impacts of your research projects research programs. We help our clients for internal and external audiences. CTC & Associates will develop tailored research drive change with effective TECHNOLOGY summaries for your projects that tell the story communication of research results, peer TRANSFER of the problem, solution and benefits – in practices and management strategies. technically accurate yet interesting language that is accessible to both managers and specialists. Don’t reinvent the wheel. CTC & Associates will OUR TEAM conduct quick-turnaround research for you INFORMATION on any transportation topic. We’ll comb the literature, interview experts and conduct surveys CTC’s writers, editors, research managers SERVICES – then package it all in a readable report that and web designers work closely with our highlights gaps and potential next steps. clients in transportation research to develop the most effective ways to communicate technical and policy information. We carefully tailor communications for top management, Maximize your research investment. CTC & practitioners, partner organizations and Associates will help you fill gaps in your research RESEARCH program. We will manage contract research, the public, and we pride ourselves on administer pooled fund studies, facilitate peer delivering high-quality, effective products MANAGEMENT exchanges, develop RFPs, and revise guidance and services on time and on budget. documents – whatever your research program needs to succeed. Brian Hirt, Managing Director Chris Kline, Managing Director 402-770-9067 920-401-9323 [email protected] [email protected] Selected work examples 2017-37TS MAINTENANCE DATA Published December 2017 NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM NCHRP “For more than 50 years, Refined ROI Methodology Shows the states have trusted the RESEARCH SERVICES & LIBRARY Transportation Research Added Benefits of MnPASS Lanes NCHRP: Board to manage the National What Was the Need? Cooperative Highway Research TECHNICAL Program (NCHRP) and provide MnPASS express lanes provide commuters in Minneapolis- Researchers developed a YOUR SUMMARY St. Paul with a congestion-free alternative during peak rush new method for state DOTs with practical hour traffic. The system’s tolling lane projects have proved RESEARCH solutions to the challenges effective in relieving traffic congestion, managing ongoing evaluating the benefits they face every day. Under the Technical Liaisons: increases in travel demand and maximizing the benefit of direction of the AASHTO Special Bradley Larsen, MnDOT of MnPASS managed lane public investments. PROGRAM Committee on Research and [email protected] projects based on return on Innovation (R&I), TRB ensures To continue providing improved mobility throughout the John Wilson, MnDOT investment and benefit– region and to address anticipated increases in user traffic, AASHTO members that the states’ investment [email protected] MnDOT has planned to expand the MnPASS lane system cost analysis. The new, September 2017 commit State Planning in NCHRP research pays off by finding new and improved Project Coordinator: by implementing additional facilities. Since the region refined method shows that Deb Fick, MnDOT doesn’t have high-occupancy vehicle corridors that could and Research (SP&R) ways to deliver transportation [email protected] be converted to high-occupancy toll lanes, MnDOT will MnPASS projects have more Program funding to NCHRP: services and products that meet have to increase capacity by adding new lanes or using Solving society’s needs. We feel a great Principal Investigators: positive impacts than existing shoulders as priced dynamic shoulder lanes. support and oversee SUPPORTINGresponsibility to make sure the Laura Fay, Western Transportation Institute, Selecting the next set of managed lanes requires careful previously identified. states get a good return on their Montana State University consideration to ensure increased benefits at lower invest- NCHRP, which pools Transportation TRANSPORTATIONinvestment. ment costs. the states’ research Paul Morris, SRF Consulting Group, Inc. AGENCY In the past, MnDOT had used a series of evaluation methods—cost estimation, perfor- dollars to solve critical “To this end, we are aided by PROJECT COST: mance measures and travel demand forecasting—to select new MnPASS corridors. While Challenges transportation challengesLEADERS R&I—the AASHTO committee Building a better database $147,675 the recommendations and results from these assessments were adequate, each evalua- responsible for oversight of tion used a different set of objectives and assumptions. The range of benefit–cost factors State DOTs compile detailed facts and fi gures on winter maintenance identified by the states. NCHRP. Its members include in earlier evaluations was also limited to travel time savings, operating costs and crashes. Through research managers and executive- MnDOT needed a more thorough and consistent benefit–cost analysis methodology NCHRP is administered level staff in equal numbers. We By Brian Hirt single grain of salt weighs (DOTs) has investigated a wide range to help decision-makers better assess MnPASS project alternatives; compare potential Research work together to maintain balance journalContributing Author and of topics related to winter maintenance by the Transportation mere milligrams, but MnPASS corridors; and communicate why MnPASS is a financially effective, long-term in the program by ensuring that since 2005. In the last decade, and even strategy for addressing mobility and congestion issues. project program Research Board (TRB), NCHRP focuses on the day-to- numbers add up quickly in before Clear Roads’ formation, state A DOTs have called upon one another to day problems faced by DOTs part of the National the winter maintenance world. What Was Our Goal? while maintaining alignment with collect information about their winter The goal of this project was to develop a refined, standardized methodology to more Academies of Sciences, the strategic needs of agency magazine maintenance operations. accurately assess the return on investment (ROI) of MnPASS programs and projects. A States measure annual salt use by An early motivator was the cost refined assessment framework would include a broader range of financial and perfor- Engineering, and executives. MnPASS express lanes enhance the ton. A fleet of plow trucks can be in of road salt. According to Jay Wells, traffic operations and improve mance measures, allowing MnDOT to more thoroughly evaluate MnPASS investments. summaries brochuresMedicine (NASEM). the thousands. A state’s annual winter maintenance operations staff assistant mobility. “As a result of AASHTO’s recent What Did We Do? TRB and NASEM bring reorganization, more emphasis is maintenance expenses are typically for the Washington State Department of in the tens (or hundreds) of millions Transportation (WSDOT), the question Using ROI as the central framework, the research team set out to generate a more com- being placed on innovation and articles trusted objectivity of dollars. In light of these dizzying came all the way from the director’s prehensive method for estimating benefits and costs. To begin, team members identi- implementation. We look forward figures, winter maintenance is necessar- office: Why is our agency paying so fied limitations in the existing benefit–cost analysis methodology and developed a list of and independence to to exploring new opportunities to ily a data-driven enterprise. The more much for salt? factors to include in the refinement process. Then they interviewed stakeholders from identify and promote innovations the administration that transportation agencies know “The first step in answering that,” various agencies to better understand MnPASS planning and operations needs, as well as that can assist state DOTs achieve the data required to support the research and system benefits and costs. about their own systems—and those Wells said, “was finding out where we and conduct of their core missions.” of states across the border or across stood in the national landscape—not Next, they began to develop the enhanced framework by defining economic, environ- NCHRP research. the nation—the better they can make just how much we use and what we mental and social ROI categories for MnPASS investments, and mapping the relationship Christopher Hedges important decisions about purchasing, spend, but what about other states?” between these categories and their associated benefits and costs. Benefit–cost analysis Director, planning and policy-making. As it turns out, many of these same methods then were used to build the refined framework and to estimate benefit–cost Learn more at TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD trb.org/nchrp. Cooperative Research Programs, states wanted this information as well, Transportation Research Board We’re paying how and WSDOT’s efforts to collect salt use much for salt? and cost
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