Evaluating ITS Projects

Consortium for ITS Training and Education
College Park, Maryland, United States

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online/Live | On-site/In-house | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' This course provides students with a comprehensive look at the scope and process of evaluation and the steps for accomplishing an evaluation. Also covered are some specific mathematical calculations involved in evaluation and tools used to evaluate ITS projects. The subjects of use impacts, ITS benefits, and evaluation boundaries are also discussed at some length.

The revised course objectives are as follows:

Define evaluation and explain why it is done.
Discuss the ITS measures of effectiveness.
List and explain the JPO’s Six-Step Evaluation Process.
Describe the tools and techniques used in ITS evaluation.
Calculate the vehicle operating costs for a transportation project.
Calculate the capital, operating, and maintenance costs for a transportation project.
Measure the user impacts of different transportation alternatives.
Define the evaluation boundaries for the alternatives under consideration.
Define the benefits of an ITS project and its components from current practices.
Employ the IDAS software package that allows the user to estimate the benefits and costs of ITS projects and their components. ...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

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University of Maryland
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College Park, Maryland 20742 USA

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