Vehicle to Infrastructure Benefit Cost Analysis Tool Prototype
The Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) Tool (V2I BCA Tool) prototype was developed to help transportation agencies explore the potential benefits of V2I technology in the context of uncertainty around future fleet uptake in on-board units (OBUs), future deployment of automated vehicles (AVs), and the uncertainty around the expected effectiveness and interaction of these technologies on safety, travel time, emissions, and other benefits. The tool uses a BCA framework and flexibly allows users to test potential outcomes given scenarios for different OBU and automation deployments and technology effectiveness.
The V2I BCA Tool Prototype is a R Shiny-based tool intended to run on a user's computer.
The tool user guide can be found here: V2I BCA Tool Prototype User Guide. The user guide provides tool background, how to's on downloading R and running the tool on your machine, a manual on the tool's functions, a walkthrough of each tool tab, and a description of the "Example Project" which is a notional project to aid in learning how the tool works.
While USDOT does not currently have plans for additional further development, interested users can add bugs and feature requests to the Issues tab which the department or another party may address in future updates.
- Jonathan Badgley (Volpe)
- Dr. Scott Smith (Volpe)
- Joey Reed (Volpe)
- Declan Cruz (Volpe)
- Hannah Rakoff (Volpe)
- Sean Peirce (Volpe)
The development of the V2I BCA Tool that contributed to this prototype version was funded by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration Office of Safety and Operations Research and Development Roadway Team (HRSO-10) under Interagency Agreement (IAA) 693JJ320N300062. Phase I of the project was initiated by FHWA Highway Research and Development (HRD) under the IAA DTFH6116V00014. Phase II was funded by the V2I program at the ITS JPO under the IAA 693JJ318N300059. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USDOT JPO or FHWA.
The V2I BCA Tool team thanks our beta-testers and collaborators for valuable input during each phase of this work. We especially thank staff and consultants of state departments of transportation in Maryland, Minnesota, Texas, California, Georgia, and Wyoming; Maricopa County; the North Central Texas Council of Governments; and Southwest Research Institute. The team valuable comments came from FHWA employees in several safety, operations and research divisions, as well as members of the ITS-JPO.
This project is licensed under the terms of the V2I BCA Tool End User License Agreement. Please read it carefully.