Status
of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit:
2002 Conditions and Performance Report |
Chapter 9: Comparison of Spending and Investment Requirements | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Index Introduction Highlights Executive Summary Part I: Description of Current System
Part II: Investment Performance Analyses
Part III: Bridges
Part IV: Special Topics Part V: Supplemental Analyses of System Components
Appendices |
This chapter, which was first introduced in the 1999 Report, serves two major purposes. The first is to discuss the impacts of historic investment, relating the condition and performance trends reported in Chapters 3 and 4 with the financial trends reported in Chapter 6. The second is to discuss the impacts of future investment, exploring the impacts of investing at different levels of funding, building on the analysis in Chapters 7 and 8. The highway portion of this chapter begins by examining the impacts that recent and historical funding patterns have had on highway conditions and performance. The section then discusses the impacts that different levels of future investment would be expected to have in five areas: pavement condition; operational performance; different types of highway user costs; future highway travel growth; and the bridge preservation backlog. The impacts on condition and performance in particular have been designed to project future values of some of the measures presented in Chapters 3 and 4. The transit portion points out that transit investment requirements are driven by projected transit demand, but do not, at this time, take into account any additional demand that may be generated by this transit capital investment. The transit section also examines historical trends in condition and performance measures, and the differences between recent transit capital funding levels and estimated rehabilitation and replacement needs. |
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