SUMMARY REPORT: Decision support systems for resilient strategic transport networks in low-income countries

This is the final summary report of project HVT043, “Decision Support Systems for Resilient Strategic Transport Networks in Low Income Countries”. It provides an overview of the research findings underpinning the decision support tool which has been developed during the project. The decision support system is built around an interactive web platform and aims to support investment decisions and options selection for long distance strategic land transport networks exposed to climate risks. It is the first multi-state transport infrastructure decision support system in a low-income country context, based on a case study region covering Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania, and is freely available online at https://east-africa.infrastructureresilience.org/. The underlying research has focused on developing a range of future background scenarios for transport development in the case study region, identifying and assembling datasets which form the basis for an assessment of transport resilience and sustainability.
Data requirements, methodologies, related frameworks and example results for the underlying research are presented throughout the report, which also summarises the development of the decision support tool and provides a case study example based on a road enhancement project in Kenya. The case study was one of five identified in discussions during stakeholder workshops. Details of the three sets of online workshops are provided, as well as an overview of the four in-country demonstration workshops carried out in September 2022. The main technical report is available separately.