Scheme Case Business Tool
When a government seeks to improve its transport system, it needs to identify transport problems and the solutions needed to fix them
Abstract
This is a Transport-Technology Research Innovation for International Development (T-TRIID) final report
When a government seeks to improve its transport system, it needs to identify transport problems and the solutions needed to fix them. These solutions comprise a set of possible schemes such as new roads, railways, busways etc. In order to build a scheme and open it to the public, it has to go through a process of scheme design before it is ready to be actually built. Scheme design is costly and time consuming. For many schemes the design process is so long and costly that they don’t get built because schemes have many hurdles to cross during their passage through the design process, many of which have nothing to do with the scheme’s merit. For example a change of government may seek to differentiate itself by abandoning the transport schemes promoted by its predecessor irrespective of their merit. The long scheme design process is an important deterrent to building new transport schemes - the longer the design process the more likely that the scheme is killed-off. This project seeks to considerably reduce the scheme design process, reducing its costs, time and risk, thereby improving the scheme’s chances of being built, incentivising governments to build more transport infrastructure and freeing up funds for governments to build more.
This is an output of the High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme
Citation
Peter Davidson Consultancy Ltd. (2019) Research Project Final Report: Scheme Business Case Tool. Available from: http://transport-links.com/download/t-triid-final-report-scheme-case-business-tool/
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