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Abstract
When right-of-way is acquired for highway projects, state departments of transportation (DOTs)
must ensure property owners receive a fair market value for their land by delivering high-quality
appraisals. Despite recent technological advances, the highly complicated appraisal process often
results in similar properties being assessed differently. Several DOTs sponsored a study to develop
an electronic appraisal method to improve the appraisal process and to reduce the likelihood of
inconsistent appraisal values by capturing, transmitting, storing, managing, and analyzing the
appraisal data. The proposed method’s framework is discussed and a prototype of the system has
been developed to demonstrate its features.