Colorado DOT

Todd Pickton, Janet Clements, Robert W. Felsburg

Statewide Economic Benefits of Transportation Investment

2007

Evaluates statewide economic benefits of future transportation investment in CO using data and benefits studies from other states.

Colorado DOT

Jim Mascolo, Ginger Pelz, Doug Magee

2008 Safety Engineering Annual Report

2008

Report was identified but could not be located.  

County Road Association of Michigan and Michigan DOT

County Road Association of Michigan and Michigan DOT

PASER Cooperative Road Condition Survey Demonstration Project

2001

Description of GPS/GIS asset management data collection effort.

FHWA

Ronald C. Pfefer, Richard A. Raub, Roy E. Lucke

Highway Safety Data: Costs, Quality, and Strategies for Improvement Research Report

1998

Identifies costs of collecting, reporting, and managing safety data.

Florida DOT

Iskandaria Masduki, Margaret Armstrong, Amy Finley, Rebecca Augustyniak, Kea Herron

Applying Instructional Design Practices to Evaluate and Improve the Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI) Training Curriculum

2010

Evaluates FDOT's training program for district data collection technicians on the Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI) methods. Focuses on an instructional design strategy to improve the training and reduce its cost.

NC Department of Transportation

Y. Richard Kim, Joseph E. Hummer, Mohammed Gabr, David Johnston, B., Shane Underwood, Daniel J. Findley and Christopher M. Cunningham

Asset Management Inventory and Data Collection

2009

Results of an effort in NC to collect asset management data on 95 miles on roadway.

NCHRP (Project 8-36, Task 22)

Cambridge Systematics

Working Paper #1: Economic Benefits of Transportation Investment

2002

Presents basic information on how safety improvements save lives and the related economic benefit. No discussion on data collection or project selection

NCHRP (Project 8-36, Task 22)

Cambridge Systematics

Working Paper #3: Community and Social Benefits of Transportation Investment

2002

Discusses safety improvements of specific treatments. No information presented that adds to current knowledge that would assist in this effort.

NHTSA

L. Blincoe, A. Seay, E. Zaloshnja, T.Miller, E. Romano, S.Luchter, R.Spicer

The Economic Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2000

2002

Report presents analysis results of motor vehicle crash costs in the US in 2000.

SHRP 2

Charles Fay, Sr.

SHRP 2 Roadway Projects - Safety Symposium 2010 (presentation)

2010

This presentation reviewed an ongoing SHRP2 projects on roadway data collection. It provided a list of vendors who participated in their data collection rodeo.

TR News, Number 254

Bradley J. Overturf

A Roadway Photolog Goes High-Definition: Connecticut Expands User Network, Realizes Cost Savings

2008

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) has created a high definition image inventory of the State's entire roadway network, accessible for desktop computer viewing by users throughout the agency. The DOT's photolog director traces the development and capabilities of the pioneering system, which has saved the state approximately $2 million.

Transportation Research Record (1719)

James P. Hall, Tschangho John Kim, Michael I. Darter

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Geographic Information System Implementation: Illinois Department of Transportation

2000

Paper presents an investigation of the costs and benefits of geographic information system (GIS) implementation in the Illinois DOT. Addresses the need to determine the organizational impact and cost-effectiveness of the technology to achieve the greatest benefit.

Transportation Research Record (2160)

Zongzhi Li, Samuel Labi, Matthew Karlaftis, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou, Montasir Abbas, Bei Zhou, Sunil Mandanu

Project-Level Life-Cycle Benefit-Cost Analysis Approach for Evaluating Highway Segment Safety Hardware Improvements

2010

Presents a methodology for a benefit-cost analysis of improving highway segment safety hardware over its life cycle. Calculates the annual potential for safety improvements associated with the upgrading of hardware by reductions in fatal, injury, and PDO collisions.

TRB Research E-Circular (E-C077)

James P. Hall

Enhancing the Value of Data Programs: A Peer Exchange

2005

Summarizes the proceedings from a peer exchange forum, organized to raise awareness of data programs, share best practices and ideas for addressing data gaps and other emerging problems.

University of Arkansas

Kelvin C.P. Wang, Weiguo Gong, Zhiqiong Hou

Networked Sensor System for Automated Data Collection and Analysis

2008

This research describes the development of a real-time multi-functional system for roadway data acquisition and analysis with multiple sensors. This system, Digital Highway Data Vehicle (DHDV), combined the technologies of laser illumination based digital imaging, inertial profiling and GPS mapping into an integrated system to accomplish the multiple tasks of survey and management for roadway data.

University of South Florida

Linjun Lu, Jian John Lu, Pei Sung Lin, Zhenyu Wang, Hongyun Chen

Developing and Interface Between FDOT's Crash Analysis Reporting System and the Safety Analyst

2009

This research presents a method to convert information from FDOT's Crash Analysis Reporting (CAR) System to a format that can be used in the SafetyAnalyst software. Other databases were also investigated, such as the Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI), for their compatibility with SafetyAnalyst.

Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, FHWA

S.C. Dresley, A. Lacombe

Value of Information and Information Services

1998

This report describes and, where possible, quantifies the value of information and information services for transportation agencies. It evaluates the various means of accessing information, and the important role of the information professional.

VTT Tiedotteita--Research Notes

Maila Herrala

The Value of Transport Information

2007

The objectives of this research were to identify the attributes affecting the value of transport information, and to specify the valuation methods applied.

Washington State DOT, Transportation Data Office

Better Decisions Through Better Data

2007

Discusses how WSDOT collects roadway, traffic, and collision data.

American Journal of Medicine

S.J. Wang, B. Middleton, L.A. Prosser, et.al

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Electronic Medical Records in Primary Care

2003

The purpose of this study was to estimate the net financial benefit or cost of implementing electronic medical record systems in primary care.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Steve Adam, Joseph T. Hlady

Data is an Asset that Should be Managed

2007

Illustrates how data can be viewed as an asset rather than an expenditure. The intent of this is not as an accounting strategy, but as a way to illustrate how data shows asset characteristics.

American Statistical Association

C. Sims

Can we measure the benefits of data programs?

1984

Article was identified but could not be located.  

Australia New Zealand Land Information Council

Price Waterhouse Economic Studies & Strategies Unit

Australian Land and Geographic Data Infrastructure Benefits Study

1995

Examines the economic gains from developing, maintaining, improving and providing access to land and geographic data infrastructure at a national level. Also determines and prioritizes the steps data supplying organizations in Australia should take to maximize potential infrastructure benefits.

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 67

E.P. Fenichel, G.J.A. Hansen

The Opportunity Cost of Information: An economic framework for understanding the balance between assessment and control in sea lamprey management

2010

Research using sea lamprey population management to show how the optimal allocation of resources between assessment and control depends on the total budget, the relative cost of each management activity, the marginal reduction in uncertainty associated with increased assessment, and the marginal effectiveness of increased treatment.

Clinical Trials; London (Periodical)

Reza Rostami, Meredith Nahm, Carl F. Pieper

What can we learn from a decade of database audits?

2009

Reviewed a decade of internal data quality audits performed at Duke Clinical Research Institute. Results indicate higher quality data achieved from a series of small audits rather than a single large database audit.

Computer Technology Review

Fred Moore

The Value of Data

2002

Focuses on the determination of the monetary value of data.

Decision Sciences Institute

Grant O. Alexander

Development of an Instrument for Measuring Information and Information Technology's Costs and Economic Value

1997

Literature review of the measurement of business value of information and information systems, specifically, the issues of information and information technology's costs, benefits, and economic value.

Economics Bulletin

Daniel Sgroi

Irreversible investment and the value of information gathering

2003

This report develops a model in which a firm has to decide whether to undertake an irreversible investment.

Fisheries

G.J.A. Hansen, M.L. Jones

The Value of Information in Fishery Management

2008

Article illustrates the importance of accounting for all aspects of the value of information using examples drawn from three critical areas of fishery management. Authors discuss how experts have judged the value of assessment programs in the past, and provide suggestions as to how these methods could be expanded to examine the value of information in a more holistic manner.

Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna

Alenka Krek, Andrew U. Frank

The Production of Geographic Information - The Value Tree

2000

Investigates how organizations collect raw geographic data and turn it into usable geographic information. The corresponding economic theory gives guidelines for fixing the transfer prices between the participants, which determines their share of the value produced.

International Journal of Technology, Policy, and Management

Pieter W.G. Bots, Fred A. B. Lohman

Estimating the Added Value of Data Mining: A Study for the Dutch Internal Revenue Service

2003

Addresses how the added value of data mining for an organization can be defined and measured before major investments in data warehousing systems are made.

International Pipeline Conference 2004

Bruce Dupuis, Jason Humber

Pipeline Integrity: Establishing Data Management Value

2004

Paper addresses the process needed to determine the value of data management to support pipeline integrity.

Journal of AHIMA

M. Mercer

Data warehousing improves care, demonstrates return on investment

2001

Article was identified but could not be located.  

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance

Margaret Armstrong, William Bailey, Benoit Couet

The Option Value of Acquiring Information in an Oilfield Production Enhancement Project

2005

Article presents a case study of an oil production enhancement where Bayesian analysis is used in a real options framework to determine if the cost of collecting additional data is justified.

Journal of Health Services Research & Policy

Susan Griffin, Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher

Decision Analysis for Resource Allocation in Health Care

2008

Addresses the use of economic evaluation to inform resource allocation decisions within health care systems about which interventions to reimburse and whether additional research should be funded.

Journal of Information Technology

Bert van Wegen, Robert De Hoog

Measuring the Economic Value of Information Systems

1996

Paper outlines an approach that combines the information commodity approach, activity-based costing, and graph modeling to determine the value of information systems for information management.

Journal of Mechanical Design Transactions of the ASME

J. M. Ling, J. M. Aughenbaugh, C.J.J Paredis

Managing the collection of information under uncertainty using information economics

2006

Introduces the principles of information economics to guide decisions on information collection. Investigates how designers can bound the value of information in the case of distributions with unknown parameters by using imprecise probabilities to characterize the current state of information.

Mining Technology: IMM Transactions Section A

Sean Dessureault

Justification Techniques for Information Technology Infrastructure in Mining

2004

The Black-Scholes option pricing method (BSOPM) is used to value the investment in a data warehouse for the mining industry.

NASA Airspace Systems Program

Thomas B. Sheridan

Strategy for Optimum Acquisition of Information

2006

Brief tutorial on optimizing acquisition of data (example presented - whether to add an instrument to an aircraft to optimize performance given how much it cost).

Nursing Management; Chicago

Bernadette M. Billinger

Should your data collection expand or shrink?

2000

Addresses the issue of expanding data collection and how to evaluate how useful and cost-effective it is in hospital areas. Three guidelines - know what you're collecting, ask the right question, focus your efforts

Pennsylvania State University

Damon Jones, Brian K. Bumbarger, Mark T. Greenberg, et al

The Economic Return on PCCD's Investment in Research-based Programs: A Cost-Benefit Assessment of Delinquency Prevention in Pennsylvania

2008

This report considers the cost-effectiveness potential for seven research-based programs funded by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD).

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

S. DeBruin, G.J. Hunter

Making the Trade-off Between Decision Quality and Information Cost

2003

Paper discusses how to compare if using additional or different imagery to improve decision quality may be justified by its cost. Compares competing factors using a cost-benefit analysis.

Principles of Microeconomics, 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill)

Robert H. Frank, Ben S. Bernanke

The Economics of Information

2003

Chapter on basic economic principles to help identify situations where additional information is most likely to prove helpful.

Resources for the Future

Molly K. Macauley

The Value of Information: A Background Paper on Measuring the Contribution of Space-Derived Earth Science Data to National Resource Management

2005

Describes a general framework for conceptualizing the value of information and illustrates how the framework might be used to value information from earth science data collected from space.

Society

Stuart Nagel

Determining When Data is Worth Gathering

1978

Brief analysis that investigates how to determine how much data is "excessive" when it comes to gathering data for federal agencies.

STEPHEN (Science & Technology Policy Asian Network)

M.A.T De Silva

Typology of S&T Statistics and Methods for Data Collection for Output and Input Indicators

Discusses a few data collection methods, and the development of output indicators (productivity, rate of return).

Studies in Health and Technology Informatics

I. Shabtai, M. Leshno, O. Blondheim, et.al

The value of information for decision-making in the healthcare environment

2007

Ealuates the contribution of information technology (IT) to improving the medical decision-making processes at the point of care of internal medicine and surgical departments and to evaluate the degree to which IT investments are worthwhile.

Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences, Dept. of Forest Resource Management

Karl Duvemo

The Influence of Data Uncertainty on Planning and Decision Processes in Forest Management

2009

Focuses on how uncertainty in forest data affects the outcome of management planning and decision making.

The Australian Society for Medical Research

Access Economics

Exceptional Returns: the Value of Investing in Health R&D in Australia

2003

His research shows that every dollar invested in health R&D in Australia has historically be recouped many times over, and that it makes an exceptional investment with high returns.

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

R. E. Johannes

The Case for Data-less Marine Resource Management: Examples from Tropical Nearshore Finfisheries

1998

Paper discusses the case for data-less management of finfisheries since there are too few researchers to do the work and it is usually not cost-effective.

US Dept. of State

Christopher Dauer

Insurers uptight about NAIC overhaul of data collection

1995

Insurance brokers express concern over the NAIC's intention to make data retrieval files more specific. One concern was how much the data files would cost.