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This emphasizes the importance of ensuring that the maintenance phase is prolonged as much as possible to extend the useful life of the road and the period of time during which benefits are incurred.
4. At the beginning of the project, the roads agency controls all factors (100 per cent influence) in determining future expenditures. The key issue is how to optimize the use of scarce resources in the provision of roads in an efficient, effective, appropriate and sustainable manner.
The RoadCem Method of road provision in fact has a significant positive influence on all four of the above essential factors.
5.1 5 Planning, Appraisal and Environmental Issues
PLANNING AND APPRAISAL
The RoadCem Method does not change the traditional approach to Planning and Appraisal. This traditional framework is shown in table 5.2.
Project Cycle
Feasibility
Table 5.2 Traditional Planning and Appraisal Framework.
Planning Typical Evaluation Tools Activity
Screening Livelihoods analysis
Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning
Output
Shorter list of projects
Identification
Selection
Policy resource analysis Master Plans Local/regional plans
Long list of projects
Design
Evaluation
Cost-benefit analysis
- Consumer surplus (e.g. RED)
- Producer surplus
- Compound ranking
- Multi-criteria analysis
Short list of projects
Commitment and negotiation
Prioritization
Budget considerations
- Ranking by economic or socio-
economic criteria
Final list of projects
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