A comprehensive benefit-cost analysis was performed using the results of model deployments of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) program, which provides electronic credentialing and electronic screening of heavy trucks to improve their safe and efficient operation. CVISN is intended to enable a regulatory system to operate at reduced cost and increased effectiveness for both its users and society. Benefit-cost analysis is a public-sector evaluation tool that compares all of a project's benefits to society with all of the project's costs to society. The question to be answered in undertaking such an analysis is: do these benefits exceed the costs? In the case of the CVISN programs evaluated, considerable public benefits can be expected, and the benefits greatly exceed the costs. From the results of several representative CVISN deployment scenarios examined, it appears prudent to proceed with full deployment of such systems.
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