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TRB Webinar: Benefit-Cost Methodologies for Evaluating Multimodal Freight Corridor Investments


Date(s)
September 07, 2017 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM U.S. Eastern
Cost (for your seat)
FREE
Professional Development Hours for this webinar
1.50 hour(s)
Continuing Education Hours for this webinar
AAE: 0.00 hour(s)
AICP: 1.50 hour(s)
CLE: 0.00 hour(s)
Details

TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, September 7, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM that features research from the National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP)’s Report 38: Guide for Conducting Benefit-Cost Analyses of Multimodal, Multijurisdictional Freight Corridor Investments.

This webinar will discuss how to conduct benefit-cost analyses of proposed infrastructure investments on multimodal, multi-jurisdictional freight corridors. Presenters will illustrate how the guidebook may help decision makers and other stakeholders at local, state, regional, and national levels. They will also provide an overview of the guidebook and how to use it.


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Webinar Presenters

  • Sharada Vadali, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
  • Kenneth Kuhn, Rand Corporation
  • Anne Goodchild, University of Washington, Seattle

Moderated by: Elisa Arias, San Diego Association of Governments

Webinar Outline

  1. Overview of NCFRP
  2. Presentation of the guidebook
    • Purpose
    • Content and organization of the guide
    • Framework and stepwise approach
    • Discussion of critical steps and resources
    • Addressing risk and uncertainty
    • Avenues and contexts for applying guidebook principles
  3. Case study
  4.  Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions. The Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP) categorizes this webinar activity as relating to business practices.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the content and application of the guidebook
  • Understand the tools, resources relevant for multimodal benefit-cost analysis, and how to tailor the analysis based on context
  • Recognize a project or a solution as a “multimodal” evaluation
  • Understand how to treat “difficult to address” issues in benefit-cost analysis

Professional Development Hour Information
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A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be provided to Professional Engineers (PEs) who register and attend the webinar as an individual. For groups, only the person that registers and attends the session will receive a PDH certificate. Certificates of Completion will be issued only to individuals who register for and attend the entire webinar session.

Individuals registered as Florida PEs are no longer required to email TRB with your license number to report your attendance. Instead, please use your certificate that TRB provides through RCEP.net as verification of your attendance to the Florida Board of Professional Engineers.

Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.

This webinar was developed in March 2017. TRB has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP by TRB. Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Website: www.RCEP.net.

 

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits


This webinar is approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits.  Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.