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FHWA Office Of Operations Releases a Tool for Operations Benefit Cost Analysis
Posted: 9/26/2013

As part of the USDOT Planning for Operations Initiative, the FHWA Office of Operations is pleased to make available Version 1.0 of the Tool for Operations Benefit-Cost Analysis (TOPS-BC V 1.0). TOPS-BC is companion resource to FHWA's Operations Benefit / Cost Desk Reference. TOPS-BC is a sketch-planning level decision support tool intended to provide support and guidance to transportation practitioners in the application of benefit/cost analysis (BCA) for a wide range of Transportation System Management and Operations (TSM&O) strategies. The tool can be used to screen TSMO&O strategies and provide "order of magnitude" BCA estimates.

URL: http://www.plan4operations.dot.gov/topsbctool/index.htm


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