RealCost User Manual, Version 2.1
August 2004
PDF version (3.2 mb)
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Purpose of the User Manual
- About LCCA
- About RealCost
- Suggested Reading
The Basics
Using RealCost in Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
List of Tables
- RealCost forms and command buttons and their functions.
- Life-cycle cost analysis steps and RealCost forms.
- Analysis Options form inputs.
- Traffic Data form inputs.
- Traffic Hourly Distribution form inputs.
- Alternative 1 and Alternative 2 form inputs.
- Examples of input probabilistic distributions.
- Most favorable 10 percent of expected agency cost outcomes.
List of Figures
- Example data entry form, Value of User Time.
- Example worksheet extract, Value of User Time.
- Excel 2000 macro security form.
- RealCost on the Windows Start menu.
- Excel 2000 macro options form.
- RealCost Switchboard.
- Opening the Switchboard from the RealCost menu.
- Administrative Functions in RealCost.
- The five sections of the RealCost Switchboard.
- Hierarchy of project-level and alternative-level data.
- Project Details form.
- Analysis Options form.
- Traffic Data form.
- Value of User Time form.
- Traffic Hourly Distribution form.
- Added Time and Vehicle Stopping Costs form.
- Switchboard buttons to save and open project-level inputs.
- Alternative 1 form (identical to Alternative 2 form).
- Ellipsis button, which accesses probabilistic inputs.
- Creating a probabilistic input.
- Deterministic Results form.
- Simulation form.
- Simulation form at the conclusion of a simulation run.
- Probabilistic Results form.
- Probabilistic distribution density and cumulative density functions.
- Correlation coefficient graph.
- Tail analysis outputs.
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