Cost Strategy 1: I-210 Pilot-specfic

Include

• Outreach—This includes the direct charges to write, edit, and manage communication pieces, outreach meetings, etc. It assumes that this effort will not be significantly reused.
• Systems engineering—This includes the direct charges required to write, edit and review documents.  It assumes the documents will not be significantly reused and thus 100% of the costs should be included.
• Analysis, modeling, and simulation—This includes direct charges to build corridor models, determine traffic management strategies for use during incidents, and evaluation of the results of using these strategies.
• Software and software systems—Costs for:

• Specific modifications to systems that will not be reused for other purposes within the corridor or on other corridors
• Any systems purchased or built that will not be reused
• Training and delivery that will not be reused

• Infrastructure—None

• Administrative—Management/Admin costs for maintaining relationships, educating new officials, and updating documents and agreements.
• Operations—Cost of running DSS (hosting, etc.)
• Maintenance—Maintenance for the DSS and models

Exclude

• Review and status meeting times from stakeholders
• Any costs associated with selection of this corridor
• All infrastructure (ITS, Communication, etc.) upgrades. All hardware upgrades would have been done sooner or later.
  • Note: It would be possible to assign a usage percentage to these costs based on the time (out of 24 hours) these upgrades are used during the application of CC intervention strategies.
• All generic or region-wide systems development
  • Note: Again it would be possible to assign a usage percentage based on the time (including all sites and out of 24 hours) these upgrades are used during the application of CC intervention strategies.
• All salaries of all personnel not directly related to the included costs above
• All research

Used for

• Cost Benefit-Analysis
• Costs for other corridors excluding ITS element upgrades