Transportation
Performance Management

Economic Analysis Links

The following list contains links to other FHWA offices and websites that have information about economic analysis of highway infrastructure and operations.

Associate Administrator for Infrastructure:

• Office of Asset Management:
  • Economic Analysis Primer
  • Highway Economic Requirements System/State Version
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Office of Program Administration:
  • Federal-Aid Highway Toll Facilities
  • Major Projects
  • Price Trends for Federal-Aid Highway Construction (Bid Price Index)
  • Value Engineering

Associate Administrator for Operations:

• Office of Freight Management and Operations:
  • Economic Methods and Studies
  • Freight Analysis Framework (FAF)
• Office of Transportation Management:
  • Traffic Analysis Toolbox

Associate Administrator for Planning, Environment, & Realty:

• Office of Planning:
  • Economic Development
  • Induced Travel: Frequently Asked Questions
  • Planning Tools
  • Surface Transportation Efficiency Analysis Model
  • Toolbox for Regional Policy Analysis
    • Cost-Benefit Toolbox
    • Economic Development Toolbox
• Office of Interstate and Border Planning
  • National Corridor Planning & Development Program
    • Procedural Guidelines for Highway Feasibility Studies

Associate Administrator for Policy:

• Office of Highway Policy Information:
  • Financing Federal-Aid Highways
  • Highway Statistics Publications
• Office of Legislation and Strategic Planning:
  • 2002 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions & Performance Report to Congress
• Office of Transportation Policy Studies:
  • Highways and the Economy Initiatives
  • Highway Cost Allocation Study
  • Value Pricing Pilot Program

Intelligent Transportation Systems/Joint Program Office:

• ITS Benefits and Costs Database