Design and appraisal of rural transport infrastructure : ensuring basic access for rural communities

Isolation contributes to rural poverty. Without a minimum of reliable and efficient access to locations of basic social and economic activities, rural life stagnates and local development prospects remain limited. Providing and maintaining a minimum level of access, referred to in this paper as basi...

• Main Author: Lebo, Jerry
• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
• Other Authors: Schelling, Dieter
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 2001
• Series: World Bank technical paper no. 496
• Subjects: TRANSPORTE RURAL; INFRAESTRUCTURA DEL TRANSPORTE; POBLACION RURAL; ALIVIO DE LA POBREZA; PAISES EN DESARROLLO; TERCER MUNDO; MITIGACION DE LA POBREZA; REDUCCION DE LA POBREZA

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Abstract
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Overview and conclusions
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Concepts and definitions
• 3. Designing RTI for basic access
• 4. Appraising RTI for basic access
• Appendix A: Road network, mobility and accessibility in selected countries
• Appendix B: Designing basic access roads
• Appendix C: Designing basic access RTI for non-motorized means of transport
• Appendix D: Low-cost traffic survey methods for RTI
• Appendix E: Samples of innovative economic appraisals of RTI investments
• Appendix F: Low volume roads economic decision model (RED)
• Notes
• Bibliography.