2008 - World Bank - Applying HDM-4 for Strategic Analyses

Highly Recommended: Rodrigo Archondo-Callao from the World Bank was involved in developing HDM-III and HDM-4 and has participated in the application of the models in many countries. 

This technical note presents his experiences in using HDM for road network strategic planning evaluations in developing countries, with the objective of providing recommendations and tools to the readers who are involved in strategic planning activities. The purpose of the evaluations, the methodology itself, the input requirements, the challenges, and the presentation of results to decision makers are each reviewed in turn.

The methodology described here attempts to take advantage of all the capabilities of HDM-4, giving due attention to its limitations, and produce usable results. The examples provided represent actual HDM-4 inputs and results obtained from many HDM-4 studies in developing countries in recent years; they were selected from different studies to best illustrate a given evaluation step, but do not otherwise represent a pattern or relationship.