Infrastructure Planning Handbook discusses the major concepts, methods, and contingencies involved in infrastructure planning, upgrades, and maintenance.

Features:

• Major infrastructure projects in context
• Master planning
• Infrastructure project performance
• Prioritization of projects and services
• Project finances and economics
• Environmental and social impacts
• Uncertainty and risk
• Research for planning and analysis

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Planning Contexts, Perspectives, and Objectives
3. Planning and Appraisal of Major Infrastructure Projects
4. Screening Projects and Master Planning
5. Municipal Infrastructure Systems: Performance and Prioritization
6. Comparisons of Infrastructure Alternatives
7. Planning Aids
8. Financial Analyses
9. Economic Analyses: Concepts
10. Economic Analyses: Applications
11. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: Concepts, Requirements, and Procedures
12. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: Additional Analyses and Issues
13. Public Involvement
14. Legal and Institutional Aspects
15. Special Planning Issues for Developing Countries
16. Construction and Professional Services
17. Planning for Uncertainty and Risk
18. Operations Research Methods for Planning and Analysis

Index

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