Pavement Life Cycle Cost Analysis
- Pavement Life Cycle Cost Analysis
In September 1998, the US Department of Transportation (DoT) introduced risk analysis, a probabilistic approach to account for the uncertainty of the inputs of the cost/benefit evaluation of pavement projects, into their decision-making policies. The traditional (deterministic) approach, did not consider the variability of inputs. Since 1995 US congress has been expressing an interest in LCCA and it is now required for projects exceeding $25 million. The DoT aims at establishing best practices rather than rigid rules for NPV computation.
One of the approaches of Net Present Value (NPV) analysis is to incorporate an inflation premium and a project risk premium into the discount rate (i). (i) = risk free rate+ risk premium of the project + risk premium of inflation. Each cash flow (CF) is represented in nominal dollars.
The DoT however stipulates another NPV approach: the premiums must be incorporated in the each of the individual projected cash flows. real dollar CF= nominal dollar CF + risk premium +inflation premium. The discount rate is the risk free rate.
The DoT approach involves the estimation of a larger number of individual values. It allows the decision-maker to visualize, for each of the CF, the impact of each of all 3 factors:1. financing decision2. risk preference decision3. timing decision and macroeconomic trends (inflation of expected cost & revenues)
The DoT points the analyst must be careful not to double count (for instance enter the inflation premium in both the discount rate and the cash flows.
Actual numerical examples reported by the DoT are: A) User delay cost, associated with queuing: [$10-$20] per vehicle per hour waitingB) User circuity cost, associated with traffic diversion: [$0.31] per vehicle per mile divertedThe first published estimates of these parameter dates back to 1970.
Source: "Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in Pavement Design - In search of Better Investment Decisions" US DoT (Department_of_Transportation)- Federal Highway Administration (September, 1998) 123pp.
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