4.1 Overview

Introduction

This chapter provides simplified procedures (SP) for road projects of lower capital cost or of a routine nature. The simplified procedures condense an evaluation into a few pages.

Application

Guidance on the application of these procedures is found in section 4.2.

For any project that meets the criteria for evaluation, it is feasible to use either the appropriate simplified procedure or the full procedure in chapter 5. However, a choice should be made prior to evaluation, rather than using both methods to see which will give a higher benefit cost ratio.

Each simplified procedure is intended to be a 'stand alone' procedure and can be lifted out of the manual and photocopied for each option being evaluated. Tables in appendix A6 need to be referred to for accident cost savings, table A12.3 for benefit update factors, and appendix A12.4 for target incremental BCR.