Low Volume Rural Roads
The objective of this note is to advise on an appropriate economic appraisal methodology that should be used for the assessment of Low Volume Rural Roads - that is roads upon which less than 200 motorized vehicles per day travel. Section 1 of this...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/6379369/low-volume-rural-roads http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11805 |
| Summary: | The objective of this note is to advise
on an appropriate economic appraisal methodology that should
be used for the assessment of Low Volume Rural Roads - that
is roads upon which less than 200 motorized vehicles per day
travel. Section 1 of this note sets out the reasons that Low
Volume Rural Roads require a slightly different
consideration from other transport projects. Section 2
discusses the approaches to economic evaluation that can be
used for low volume rural roads, whilst Section 3 presents
the manner that the consumer surplus method can be extended
to account for the characteristics of low volume rural
roads. Section 4 contains a summary of the main points of
the note. |
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