Applying the HDM-4 Model to Strategic Planning of Road Works

The Highway Development and Management Model (HDM-4) is a software system for evaluating options for investing in road transport infrastructure. Worldwide, the HDM-4 model is most commonly used as a basis for feasibility studies, in which a road pr...

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Main Author: Archondo-Callao, Rodrigo
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
BUS
CAR
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/09/9999769/applying-hdm-4-model-strategic-planning-road-works
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spelling okr-10986-174192021-04-23T14:03:36Z Applying the HDM-4 Model to Strategic Planning of Road Works Archondo-Callao, Rodrigo ASPHALT ASPHALT CONCRETE AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC BENKELMAN BEAM BITUMINOUS ROADS BUS CALIBRATION CANDIDATE ROADS CAR CAR FUEL CARGO CARRIAGEWAY COMPACTION CONCRETE ROADS CONSTRAINT CRACK SEALING CRACKING CULVERTS DRAINAGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EMISSION EMISSION MODELS FEASIBILITY STUDIES FEASIBILITY STUDY FREIGHT FRONTIER FUEL FUEL CONSUMPTION FUEL COST GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT HDM4 HIGHWAY HIGHWAY DESIGN INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL ROADS INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX LANES LIGHT TRUCK LOCAL CONTRACTORS MAIN ROAD MAINTENANCE LABOR MOTORCYCLES NET BENEFITS NET PRESENT VALUE OVERLAY PASSENGER PASSENGER-TRIPS PASSENGERS PAVEMENT PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PERIODIC MAINTENANCE POTHOLES RATE OF RETURN RECONSTRUCTION RESURFACING ROAD ROAD AGENCIES ROAD AGENCY ROAD CHARACTERISTICS ROAD CLASS ROAD COSTS ROAD DETERIORATION ROAD EXPENDITURES ROAD INFORMATION ROAD INVESTMENTS ROAD LENGTH ROAD NETWORK ROAD REHABILITATION ROAD ROUGHNESS ROAD TRANSPORT ROAD USER ROAD USER COST ROAD USER COSTS ROAD USERS ROAD WIDTH ROAD WORKS ROADS ROUGHNESS ROUTINE MAINTENANCE RUT DEPTH SIGNS SLURRY SOCIETY COSTS SPEED SPEEDS STRATEGIC PLANNING SURFACE TREATMENT SURFACING TIRES TRAFFIC TRAFFIC COMPOSITION TRAFFIC FLOW TRAFFIC GROWTH TRAFFIC LEVEL TRAFFIC LEVELS TRAFFIC RANGE TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSPORT SECTOR TRAVEL TIME TRUCKS TYPES OF ROAD UNPAVED ROAD UNPAVED ROADS VEHICLE VEHICLE COST VEHICLE FLEET VEHICLE OPERATING VEHICLE OPERATING COSTS VEHICLE TRAFFIC VEHICLE TYPES VEHICLE UTILIZATION VEHICLES The Highway Development and Management Model (HDM-4) is a software system for evaluating options for investing in road transport infrastructure. Worldwide, the HDM-4 model is most commonly used as a basis for feasibility studies, in which a road project is evaluated in terms of its economic viability. A more comprehensive type of evaluation based on HDM-4 is a network evaluation, which assesses an entire road network to help decision makers in their strategic planning of road investments and/or the definition of a rational road works program, with or without budget constraints. A network economic evaluation is the most challenging use of the model, but the effort is well justified given the potential savings to be achieved on transport costs by comparing various project alternatives and performing an optimization under budget constraints. This technical note presents the author's experience applying HDM-4 and its predecessor, the Highway Design and Maintenance Standards Model (HDM-III), to road network strategic planning evaluations in developing countries, with the objective of providing recommendations and tools to the readers who are involved in strategic planning activities. The purpose of the evaluations, the methodology itself, the input requirements, the challenges, and the presentation of results to decision makers are each reviewed in turn. 2014-03-26T21:41:37Z 2014-03-26T21:41:37Z 2008-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/09/9999769/applying-hdm-4-model-strategic-planning-road-works http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17419 English en_US Transport paper series;no. TP-20 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic ASPHALT
ASPHALT CONCRETE
AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC
BENKELMAN BEAM
BITUMINOUS ROADS
BUS
CALIBRATION
CANDIDATE ROADS
CAR
CAR FUEL
CARGO
CARRIAGEWAY
COMPACTION
CONCRETE ROADS
CONSTRAINT
CRACK SEALING
CRACKING
CULVERTS
DRAINAGE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EMISSION
EMISSION MODELS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FEASIBILITY STUDY
FREIGHT
FRONTIER
FUEL
FUEL CONSUMPTION
FUEL COST
GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT
HDM4
HIGHWAY
HIGHWAY DESIGN
INTERNATIONAL BANK
INTERNATIONAL ROADS
INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX
LANES
LIGHT TRUCK
LOCAL CONTRACTORS
MAIN ROAD
MAINTENANCE LABOR
MOTORCYCLES
NET BENEFITS
NET PRESENT VALUE
OVERLAY
PASSENGER
PASSENGER-TRIPS
PASSENGERS
PAVEMENT
PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT
PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
PERIODIC MAINTENANCE
POTHOLES
RATE OF RETURN
RECONSTRUCTION
RESURFACING
ROAD
ROAD AGENCIES
ROAD AGENCY
ROAD CHARACTERISTICS
ROAD CLASS
ROAD COSTS
ROAD DETERIORATION
ROAD EXPENDITURES
ROAD INFORMATION
ROAD INVESTMENTS
ROAD LENGTH
ROAD NETWORK
ROAD REHABILITATION
ROAD ROUGHNESS
ROAD TRANSPORT
ROAD USER
ROAD USER COST
ROAD USER COSTS
ROAD USERS
ROAD WIDTH
ROAD WORKS
ROADS
ROUGHNESS
ROUTINE MAINTENANCE
RUT DEPTH
SIGNS
SLURRY
SOCIETY COSTS
SPEED
SPEEDS
STRATEGIC PLANNING
SURFACE TREATMENT
SURFACING
TIRES
TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC COMPOSITION
TRAFFIC FLOW
TRAFFIC GROWTH
TRAFFIC LEVEL
TRAFFIC LEVELS
TRAFFIC RANGE
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT COSTS
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
TRANSPORT SECTOR
TRAVEL TIME
TRUCKS
TYPES OF ROAD
UNPAVED ROAD
UNPAVED ROADS
VEHICLE
VEHICLE COST
VEHICLE FLEET
VEHICLE OPERATING
VEHICLE OPERATING COSTS
VEHICLE TRAFFIC
VEHICLE TYPES
VEHICLE UTILIZATION
VEHICLES
spellingShingle ASPHALT
ASPHALT CONCRETE
AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC
BENKELMAN BEAM
BITUMINOUS ROADS
BUS
CALIBRATION
CANDIDATE ROADS
CAR
CAR FUEL
CARGO
CARRIAGEWAY
COMPACTION
CONCRETE ROADS
CONSTRAINT
CRACK SEALING
CRACKING
CULVERTS
DRAINAGE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EMISSION
EMISSION MODELS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FEASIBILITY STUDY
FREIGHT
FRONTIER
FUEL
FUEL CONSUMPTION
FUEL COST
GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT
HDM4
HIGHWAY
HIGHWAY DESIGN
INTERNATIONAL BANK
INTERNATIONAL ROADS
INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX
LANES
LIGHT TRUCK
LOCAL CONTRACTORS
MAIN ROAD
MAINTENANCE LABOR
MOTORCYCLES
NET BENEFITS
NET PRESENT VALUE
OVERLAY
PASSENGER
PASSENGER-TRIPS
PASSENGERS
PAVEMENT
PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT
PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
PERIODIC MAINTENANCE
POTHOLES
RATE OF RETURN
RECONSTRUCTION
RESURFACING
ROAD
ROAD AGENCIES
ROAD AGENCY
ROAD CHARACTERISTICS
ROAD CLASS
ROAD COSTS
ROAD DETERIORATION
ROAD EXPENDITURES
ROAD INFORMATION
ROAD INVESTMENTS
ROAD LENGTH
ROAD NETWORK
ROAD REHABILITATION
ROAD ROUGHNESS
ROAD TRANSPORT
ROAD USER
ROAD USER COST
ROAD USER COSTS
ROAD USERS
ROAD WIDTH
ROAD WORKS
ROADS
ROUGHNESS
ROUTINE MAINTENANCE
RUT DEPTH
SIGNS
SLURRY
SOCIETY COSTS
SPEED
SPEEDS
STRATEGIC PLANNING
SURFACE TREATMENT
SURFACING
TIRES
TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC COMPOSITION
TRAFFIC FLOW
TRAFFIC GROWTH
TRAFFIC LEVEL
TRAFFIC LEVELS
TRAFFIC RANGE
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT COSTS
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
TRANSPORT SECTOR
TRAVEL TIME
TRUCKS
TYPES OF ROAD
UNPAVED ROAD
UNPAVED ROADS
VEHICLE
VEHICLE COST
VEHICLE FLEET
VEHICLE OPERATING
VEHICLE OPERATING COSTS
VEHICLE TRAFFIC
VEHICLE TYPES
VEHICLE UTILIZATION
VEHICLES
Archondo-Callao, Rodrigo
Applying the HDM-4 Model to Strategic Planning of Road Works
relation Transport paper series;no. TP-20
description The Highway Development and Management Model (HDM-4) is a software system for evaluating options for investing in road transport infrastructure. Worldwide, the HDM-4 model is most commonly used as a basis for feasibility studies, in which a road project is evaluated in terms of its economic viability. A more comprehensive type of evaluation based on HDM-4 is a network evaluation, which assesses an entire road network to help decision makers in their strategic planning of road investments and/or the definition of a rational road works program, with or without budget constraints. A network economic evaluation is the most challenging use of the model, but the effort is well justified given the potential savings to be achieved on transport costs by comparing various project alternatives and performing an optimization under budget constraints. This technical note presents the author's experience applying HDM-4 and its predecessor, the Highway Design and Maintenance Standards Model (HDM-III), to road network strategic planning evaluations in developing countries, with the objective of providing recommendations and tools to the readers who are involved in strategic planning activities. The purpose of the evaluations, the methodology itself, the input requirements, the challenges, and the presentation of results to decision makers are each reviewed in turn.
format Publications & Research :: Working Paper
author Archondo-Callao, Rodrigo
author_facet Archondo-Callao, Rodrigo
author_sort Archondo-Callao, Rodrigo
title Applying the HDM-4 Model to Strategic Planning of Road Works
title_short Applying the HDM-4 Model to Strategic Planning of Road Works
title_full Applying the HDM-4 Model to Strategic Planning of Road Works
title_fullStr Applying the HDM-4 Model to Strategic Planning of Road Works
title_full_unstemmed Applying the HDM-4 Model to Strategic Planning of Road Works
title_sort applying the hdm-4 model to strategic planning of road works
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/09/9999769/applying-hdm-4-model-strategic-planning-road-works
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17419
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