2004 - Japan - Pitfalls of HDM-4 Strategy Analysis

This paper suggests guidelines on the selection of good maintenance and improvement policies for all links while doing strategy analysis with dynamic sectioning approach. In addition to the trade-off in terms of accuracy and convenience with the use of the road network matrix approach versus dynamic sectioning approach,practitioners are confronted with several practical issues involved in doing strategy analysis such as the relationship between the “planning period” of the strategic plan and the “analysis period” of the HDM runs for analyzing it, obtaining a uniform outlay of investments over the planning period, etc.