Case Study:

Envision Utah

Methodology

Level of Effort

The Envision Utah technical analysis was a multimillion-dollar effort conducted over a period of roughly three years. QGET estimates that state agencies provided approximately 50,000 person-hours of time for technical support, of which 20,000 were to develop the baseline scenario and 30,000 were to develop and analyze alternatives and the quality growth strategy. The other major component of Envision Utah - not included in this time estimate - was the process and public outreach, which also involved a significant amount of work, including visits with 99 local governments and several hundred public meetings.

Obtaining a more precise estimate of the staff time, cost, or resource requirements of the Envision Utah analysis or its various components is difficult. The analysis was a combination of staff time at state and local agencies and contracts with consultants, including some activities that would have been conducted normally. Funding came from a variety of sources. Also, some elements of the analysis relied heavily on other elements; for example, the establishment of data in a Raster environment facilitated the infrastructure cost, water supply/demand, transportation, and air quality analyses.

While Envision Utah was conducted as an integrated study, elements of the approach could be extracted and applied individually or in combination. Also, while the Envision Utah process involved an extensive public outreach and involvement effort, the technical methods could be applied separately. Resource requirements for some of the individual modeling elements are described above in their respective sections.

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