Case Studies in Cross-Asset, Multi-Objective Resource Allocation
Transportation agencies face a complex set of challenges as they make cross-asset resource
allocation decisions. Such decisions entail deciding how much to invest in an agency’s roads,
bridges, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and other traffic and safety assets to achieve a
variety of competing objectives, such as improving pavement and bridge conditions, increasing
mobility, and enhancing safety.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's
NCHRP Research Report 921: Case Studies in Cross-Asset, Multi-Objective Resource Allocation
extends and implements the results of
NCHRP Report 806: Cross-AssetResource Allocation and the Impact on System Performance. Case studies were used to
illustrate key issues in implementing a cross-asset resource allocation approach, and the
lessons learned were then used to improve the guidance and tools developed in NCHRP
Report 806.
In addition, a web tool was developed to enable the use of Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) in the optimization step of the implementation process and to demonstrate
use of a web service that transportation agencies can use in their own web applications to
automate DEA analysis.
This Summary Last Modified On: 1/14/2020