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Highway improvement project selection by the joint consideration of cost-benefit and risk criteria

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Since highway improvement project selection requires screening thousands of road segments with respect to crashes for further analysis and final project selection, we provide a two-step project selection methodology and describe an application case to demonstrate its advantages. In the first step of the proposed methodology, we will use odds against observing a given crash count, injury count, run-off road count and so on as measures of risk and a multi-criteria pre-selection technique with the objective to decrease the number of prospective improvement locations. In the second step, the final project selection is accomplished based on a composite efficiency measure of estimated cost, benefit and hazard assessment (odds) under budget constraints. To demonstrate the two-step methodology, we will analyze 4 years of accident data at 23 000 locations where the final projects are selected out of several hundred of potential locations.

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    P Kelle

  2. Highway Safety Research Group in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    H Schneider & C Raschke

  3. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    H Shirazi

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Kelle, P., Schneider, H., Raschke, C. et al. Highway improvement project selection by the joint consideration of cost-benefit and risk criteria. J Oper Res Soc 64, 313–325 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2012.55

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