Transportation Infrastructure Impacts Calculator (TIIC): An Infrastructure Assessment Tool

Transportation is at the heart of almost all economic-driven activities and corresponding infrastructure requirements. Proper planning of transportation infrastructures is required in delivering efficient, low risks, and high benefits to the people. In the early stages of such projects, it is critical to evaluate various proposals and immediately discard those which do not meet the requirements for further consideration. In this study, an Excel-based tool that can calculate the possible benefits of a transportation project based on a preselected set of criteria was developed. The inputs would come from the output of a macroscopic transportation planning model. This tool will process the inputs and contrast the benefits against the associated costs, where the comparison is in monetary units. The tool has demonstrated its use in the tasks of LGU transport planners. Various seminars and trainings have been conducted to introduce the tool to the target users. Moreover, a user manual and video tutorial have been developed to further aid the users.