{"doc_desc":{"title":"DDI-MCC-VUT-HDM4-IND-2011-v01","idno":"DDI_VUT_2008_MCC-HDM_v01_M","producers":[{"name":"Millennium Challenge Corporation","abbreviation":"MCC","affiliation":"","role":"Metadata Producer"}],"prod_date":"2014-07-28","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0\nVersion 2.0 (May 2015). Edited version based on Version 01 (DDI-MCC-VUT-HDM4-IND-2011-v01) that was done by Millennium Challenge Corporation."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"VUT_2008_MCC-HDM_v01_M","title":"HDM-4 Analysis of the Efate Ring Road and the Santo East Coast Road 2008-2010","alt_title":"MCC-HDM 2008-2010"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Greg Morosiuk, Senior Technical Manager","affiliation":"Transport Research Laboratory"}],"production_statement":{"funding_agencies":[{"name":"Millennium Challenge Corporation","abbreviation":"MCC","role":""}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Monitoring & Evaluation Division","affiliation":"Millennium Challenge Corporation","email":"impact-eval@mcc.gov","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Independent Evaluation"},"version_statement":{"version":"Anonymized dataset for public distribution"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Road","vocab":"","uri":""},{"topic":"Rehabilitation","vocab":"","uri":""},{"topic":"Infrastructure","vocab":"","uri":""},{"topic":"HDM-4","vocab":"","uri":""}],"abstract":"The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) provided funds for the upgrade of two roads in Vanuatu.  These were the Efate Ring Road and the Santo East Coast Road.  Both these roads were unpaved (coral) roads and were sealed with a double surface dressing in 2009\/10.  The length of road sealed in Efate was 92.5 km and 57.2 km in Santo.  An HDM-4 analysis was conducted to examine:\n\ni) The economic viability of upgrading the two roads\nii) The future performance of the roads","coll_dates":[{"start":"2008-05","end":"2008-08","cycle":"Baseline"},{"start":"2010","end":"2010","cycle":"Follow-up"}],"nation":[{"name":"Vanuatu","abbreviation":"VUT"}],"geog_coverage":"The islands of Efate and Espiritu Santo","data_kind":"Observation data\/ratings [obs]"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Public Works Department of Vanuatu (baseline)","abbreviation":"","affiliation":""},{"name":"Millennium Challenge Account-Vanuatu (follow-up)","abbreviation":"","affiliation":""}],"sampling_procedure":"In HDM-4 it is necessary to describe the characteristics of the vehicle fleet operating on the roads under investigation.  The characteristics of the 7 vehicle types identified in the traffic surveys were estimated following discussions with the Public Works Department (PWD)."}},"data_access":{"dataset_availability":{"access_place":"Millennium Challenge Corporation","access_place_uri":"http:\/\/data.mcc.gov\/evaluations\/index.php\/catalog\/102","original_archive":"Millennium Challenge Corporation\nhttp:\/\/data.mcc.gov\/evaluations\/index.php\/catalog\/102\nCost: None"},"dataset_use":{"cit_req":"Morosiuk, Greg.  2011.  HDM-4 Analysis of the Efate Ring Road and the Santo East Coast Road.","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}},"schematype":"survey","tags":[{"tag":"noDOI"}]}