Integrated corridor management initiative : demonstration phase evaluation – San Diego benefit-cost analysis test plan.

This report presents the test plan for conducting the Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) for the United States \nDepartment of Transportation (U.S. DOT) evaluation of the San Diego Integrated Corridor Management \n(ICM) Initiative Demonstration. The ICM projects being deployed in San Diego include a suite of \nstrategies aimed at balancing corridor transportation supply and demand to promote overall corridor \nefficiency and safety. Operational strategies to be deployed in the San Diego I-15 highway corridor \ninclude: simulations to predict travel conditions for improved incident response, interdependent \nresponse plans among agencies, traffic diversion to strategic arterials, traveler mode shift to the BRT \nsystem during major freeway incidents, and comparative travel time information to the public and \noperating agencies for freeway, HOT lanes, arterial streets, and BRT. Technologies that will be used to \ncarry out these strategies include a Decision Support System, a 511 traveler information system \n(telephone and website), a regional center-to-center information exchange network, dynamic message \nsigns, adaptive ramp metering, and responsive traffic signals. This BCA Data Test Plan is based on the \nICM Initiative Demonstration National Evaluation Framework. This test plan provides an overview of \nthe BCA framework and describes the specific qualitative and quantitative data that will be collected to \nsupport the analysis. Data analysis methodologies as well as risks and mitigations associated with this \nevaluation analysis are also discussed in this test plan\n