The cost of American publicly funded infrastructure appears to be higher per unit deliverable than comparable public investment in other countries with similar development standards. Outcomes of these projects have variable and/or questionable relationship to mitigation of social and environmental negative externalities. This research project will support support proposals to improve the conduct of American infrastructure development/execution practices.

The types of questions that we would like to answer based on your research include (but are not limited to):

• On a project by project basis
• - Correlate between infrastructure reliability and income levels
• - Correlate between distance from jobs and income levels
• - Relate income and associated demographics to cost of trip per vehicle mile (VMT) to produce the infrastructure, cost of use / VMT (in the operation phase)
• - Relate carbon emissions reductions to VMT improvements to income levels of those served
• - Cost of CO2e produced by the project, correlated to income level
• - Cost and schedule overruns per project, in percentage against baseline, correlated to local and regional demographics.