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U.S.
Department of Transportation
Key Findings & Considerations
The
initial BCA evaluates environmental benefits of the applications to compare
the magnitude of their benefits; the results provide a number of key
findings:
§Magnitude of benefits realized is very sensitive to the
compliance rate
§Applications that generate benefits on a VMT basis have
highest overall benefits
§Applications may have significant local/regional
benefits; however, do not provide substantial nationwide
benefits
Considerations raised by the
BCA:
§The role of dedicated short range communication (DSRC)
vs. cellular communication and the implications
for deployment
§Agencies may not turn on applications all the time;
e.g., eco-speed harmonization may be activated
during code orange air quality days