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Table 13.3
Recommended hourly earnings rates for determining values of travel time savings
2009 US dollars per person-hour
Surface modes
a
Category
(except high-speed
Air and high-speed rail
travel
rail)
Local travel
-Personal
-Business
$23.90
$22.90
-
-
Intercity travel
-Personal
-Business
$23.90
$22.90
$45.60
$62.60
Truck drivers
$23.70
-
Bus drivers
$23.60
-
Transit rail operators
$38.90
-
Locomotive engineers
$33.00
$33.00
$73.30
Source
Reference [
16
], US Department of Transportation Guidance on the Average Values of
Traveler Time Savings (VTTS)
a
Based on Table
13.1
Airline pilots and engineers
-
Table 13.4
Cost of travel time congestion in selected areas of the United States (NYMTC 2006)
Source
Cost of delay
Units
Year
Region
2001 Baltimore Regional
Transportation Plan
Baltimore Regional
Transportation Board
$12.96
$/vehicle-hour
1996
Baltimore area
2003
2008 TIP Capital
District Transportation
Committee (Albany, NY)
-
$8.18
$/vehicle-hour
1991
Albany area
Texas Transportation
Institute
Urban Mobility
Report
(2004)
$13.45
$/person-hour
2002
Average US
urban area
RAND California
$12.85
$/person-hour
N/A
California
United States Department
of Transportation
$12.70
$/person-hour
1998
Nationwide
HERS model
$15.59
$/vehicle-hour
1995
Nationwide
IDAS model
$9.63
$/person-hour
1995
Nationwide
Caltrans
$8.16
$/person-hour
2000
California
Washington State
Department of Transportation
$6.12
$/person-hour
2000 Washington State
Source
Reference [
17
], Table 1
