| dc.contributor.author | Bridgelall, Raj | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tolliver, Denver D. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Class I railroads in North America collectively invested $11.2 billion to comply with a federal mandate to deploy positive train control. This amount dwarfs the potential savings from accidents the technology could prevent. Therefore, railroads must seek additional benefits. This research contributes simple closed-form models to inform strategies that can leverage the technology deployment by estimating the annual additional net benefits, internal rate of return, and benefit-cost ratio needed for a desired payback period. | en_US |
| dc.rights | In copyright. Permission to make this version available has been granted by the author and publisher. | |
| dc.title | Closed Form Models to Assess Railroad Technology Investments | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.type | Preprint | en_US |
| dc.description | Raj Bridgelall is the program director for the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) Center for Surface Mobility Applications & Real-time Simulation environments (SMARTSeSM). | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-03T16:37:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-08-03T16:37:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31972 | |
| dc.subject | Benefit-cost analysis. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Internal rate of return. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Non-destructive evaluation. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Payback period. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Positive train control. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Railroad safety. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-3743-6652 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-8522-9394 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bridgelall, Raj and Denver Tolliver. "Closed Form Models to Assess Railroad Technology Investments." Transportation Planning and Technology, DOI:10.1080/03081060.2020.1805541, 43(7), August 11, 2020. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.ugpti.org/about/staff/viewbio.php?id=79 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.contributor.organization | Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute | |
| ndsu.college | College of Business | |
| ndsu.department | Transportation and Logistics | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/03081060.2020.1805541 | |
