Benefit and Cost Parameters of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Use in Evaluations of Deployment Analysis Systems in Florida

Abstract

The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Deployment Analysis System (IDAS) is a sketch planning analysis tool that can be used to estimate the impacts and costs resulting from the deployment of ITS components. The program includes default values for the parameters required to calculate ITS deployment costs and benefits. IDAS allows users to override the default values of ITS device cost and benefit parameters, including unit cost estimates, cost assumptions, benefit module parameters, ITS impacts, and impact dollar values. On one hand, the use of cost and benefit parameter values that better represent the region under consideration is expected to produce better assessments of ITS deployment alternatives. On the other hand, collection of regional ITS cost and benefit parameters could be expensive, and some required parameters might not be available for the region under consideration. For this reason, IDAS users tend to use many of the program's default values in their analyses. This paper reports on th...