Project Analysis

Project analysis can be used to estimate the economic or engineering viability of road investment projects by performing lifecycle analysis of pavement performance, maintenance and/or improvement effects together with estimates of road user costs.

Project analysis can be used to estimate the economic or engineering viability of road investment projects by performing lifecycle analysis of pavement performance, maintenance and/or improvement effects together with estimates of road user costs.

The main outputs include:

• Annual predictions of pavement performance
• Pavement maintenance and road improvement effects
• Road user costs and benefits
• Estimates of environmental effects
• Standard economic indicators such as NPV and EIRR

Sensitivity Analysis allows a user to investigate the impact of variations in key parameters on the analysis results.

Multi-Criteria analysis (MCA) provides a means of comparing projects using criteria that cannot easily be assigned an economic cost. For example, environmental, social or political impacts.