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Link-based Internal and Full Cost Analysis

David Levinson
Sep 25, 2018
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Full cost of travel on the Twin Cities Road Network ($/veh-km)

Recent working paper:

  • Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2018) Link-based Internal and Full Cost Analysis.

This paper develops a link-based full cost model, which identifies the key cost components of travel, including both internal and external versions of cost, and gives a link-based cost estimate. The key cost components for travelers are categorized as time cost, emission cost, crash cost, user monetary cost, and infrastructure cost. Selecting the Minneapolis - St. Paul (Twin Cities) Metropolitan region as the study area, the estimates show that the average full cost of travel is $0.68/veh-km, in which the time and user monetary costs account for approximately 85% of the total. Except for the infrastructure cost, highways are more cost-effective than other surface roadways considering all the other cost components, as well as the internal and full costs.

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