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| Project Title | Price Discovery for Strategic Compensation of Toll Road Operators to Relieve State Maintenance Impacts |
| University | George Mason University University of Delaware |
| Principal Investigator(s) | PI: Jonathan Gifford, Co-PI: Elise Miller-Hooks, Co-PI: Sue McNeil, |
| Funding Source(s) and Amounts Provided (by each agency or organization) | GMU Fed-- $133,334 GMU Match-- $133,334 UDEL Fed-- $66,668 UDEL Match-- $66,669 |
| Total Project Cost | $400,005 |
| Start and End Dates | 01/20/2020 - 09/30/2022 |
| Brief Description of Research Project | Document how state DOTs currently work with toll road operators, including publicprivate partnership (P3) concessionaires and public toll authorities, to mitigate the impacts of major maintenance and other planned and unplanned facility outages. 2. Examine whether and how much states could further mitigate the adverse impacts of scheduled major maintenance and unanticipated facility closures by cooperating with the operators of nearby facilities operated by toll road operators. 3. Examine how much states could benefit by designing major maintenance programs that, by using such mitigation measures, allow larger scale and more efficient major maintenance strategies. 4. Estimate the feasibility and cost of such cooperation to the state DOT and the toll road operators and devise potential strategies to enable such cooperation. |