ECAT - Externality Cost Estimates

ECAT - Externality Cost Estimates are the estimated costs of highway use externalities including noise, air pollution, crashes, and congestion, broken into various degrees of specificity. For each category of externality the estimates include both the total annual cost (in millions) as well as dollars per vehicle mile traveled, and can be filtered by state, highway functional system, vehicle type, urban and rural. Additionally, every figure has a low, mid, and high estimate that embodies the uncertainty in the parameters and methodology used to construct the estimates. These estimates are useful for any analysis involving the value of negative externalities of highway use, such as benefit-cost analysis or impact analysis of highway projects.

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Source https://datahub.transportation.gov/d/cjw6-nz52
Version
Author Federal Highway Administration
Author Email
Maintainer
Maintainer Email
Shared (this field will be removed in the future) Open
IB1 Sensitivity Class
IB1 Trust Framework
IB1 Dataset Assurance
IB1 Trust Framework
Common-Core_Bureau-Code 021:15
Common-Core_Contact-Email [email protected]
Common-Core_Contact-Name Viktoriia Dunleavy
Common-Core_License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Common-Core_Program-Code 021:009
Common-Core_Public-Access-Level public
Common-Core_Publisher Federal Highway Administration
categories {}
license Public Domain U.S. Government
owner_display_name FHWA HPTS
source_created_at 2022-08-25T19:29:10.000Z
source_updated_at 2023-08-14T17:27:40.000Z