Design and Appraisal of Rural Transport Infrastructure : Ensuring Basic Access for Rural Communities
By J. Lebo, D. Schelling. 2001
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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 basic access, is therefore a necessary element of any rural development strategy. Overcoming isolation necessitates holistic strategies. Approaches include improved logistics to support trade and communication, the promotion of transport services and intermediaite means of transport, improved quality and location of services, and the sustaianable provision of cost-effective transport infrastrucutre. Among these, the cost-effective design and appraisal of rural transport infrastructure (RTI) is the topic of this paper. A basic access approach to the provision of RTI is presented which gives priority to the provision and maintenance of reliable, all-season access. Basic access interventions are defined as the least-cost investments which provide a minimum level of all-season passability. In a majority of cases, this means single-lane, spot-improved earth or gravel roads. In situations where motorized basic access is not affordable, improvement of the existing path network and the construction of footbridges may be the only alternative. resources are scarce. Therefore the basic access approach should only employ the most appropriate and cost-effective interventions.
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- Public infrastructure and growth : new channels and policy implications (2006, unknown): “Infrastructure planning based on a basic access approach would give priority to least-cost interventions, which provide reliable, allseason access to infrastructure to as many villages as possible (see Lebo and Schelling (2001)).”
- Improving Rural Mobility: Options for Developing Motorized and Nonmotorized Transport in Rural Areas (2002, background): “• Design and Appraisal of Rural Transport Infrastructure: Ensuring Basic Access for Rural Communities.”
- On Measuring the Benefits of Lower Transport Costs (2008, methodology): “…appraisal techniques for rural road projects.2 A recommended method for measuring benefits is to estimate the savings in transport costs that the project would entail, imputing the opportunity cost of travel time to market for households that do their own transport (see Lebo and Schelling 2001).”
- Looking ahead: long-term prospects for Africa's agricultural development and food security (2005, background): “Several studies have shown the aggregate-level links between poverty, growth, and rural capital-intensive infrastructure in Africa and other developing regions, including Lipton and Ravallion (1995), Jimenez (1995), and Van de Walle (1996).”