1. Report No.

2. Government Accession No.

3. Recipient's Catalog No.

4. Title and Subtitle

Road Weather Management Benefit Cost Analysis Compendium

5. Report Date

April 2017

6. Performing Organization Code

7. Author(s)

Michael Lawrence, Paul Nguyen, Jonathan Skolnick, Mathies Wahner

8. Performing Organization Report No.

N/A

9. Performing Organization Name and Address

Leidos
11251 Roger Bacon Dr.
Reston, VA 20190

Jack Faucett Associates
4915 St. Elmo Ave, Suite 205
Bethesda, Maryland 20814

10. Work Unit No. (TRAIS)

11. Contract or Grant No.

DTFH61-12-D-00050

12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Office of Freight Management and Operations
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20590

13. Type of Report and Period Covered

Compendium, October 2015 – November 2016

14. Sponsoring Agency Code

HOP

15. Supplementary Notes

Government Task Managers: Roemer Alfelor and Jim Hunt

16. Abstract

The Road Weather Management (RWM) Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) Compendium provides information about benefit cost analyses conducted around the country for specific RWM technologies or operational strategies. The actual project evaluations involve the use of custom spreadsheets developed by the agency or its contractors, or the application of available software tools to the BCA. The Compendium also includes hypothetical cases designed to demonstrate how BCA can be used for a specific RWM technology or operational strategy. FHWA has developed a sketch planning BCA tool —the Tool for Operations Benefit/Cost (TOPS-BC)—for application to TSMO projects, including RWM projects. For the hypothetical cases, TOPS-BC is used to assist in the measurement of benefits and costs and in the calculation of the benefit cost ratio. Each case demonstrates how planners conducted, or could conduct, a BCA on one or more RWM technologies or strategies. There are 27 cases studies presented in the RWM Compendium, and each addresses one or more specific BCA concepts or procedures. Note that the hypothetical BCA case studies and scenarios included in this compendium for several road weather management strategies, including Connected Vehicle applications, utilize assumptions on costs and benefits that do not reflect actual costs and benefits associated with those strategies and are presented only for demonstration purposes.

17. Key Words

Road weather management, benefit cost analysis, transportation operations, TOPS-BC, economic analysis tools, connected vehicles

18. Distribution Statement

No restrictions.

19. Security Classification (of this report)

Unclassified

20. Security Classification (of this page)

Unclassified

21. No of Pages

216

22. Price

N/A