Revision of Project Evaluation as Part of the German Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan

This paper shows the current situation in the revision of the present evaluation method for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (FTIP) in 2015. New to the evaluation process is a superior prioritizing strategy, which the degree of urgency for adaptions on the transport infrastructure has to be orientated on. This prioritizing strategy also enables a consistent merge of the single assessment modules. A focus is set on the further development of the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) as the core assessment tool of the FTIP evaluation process. Within the CBA-module the authors especially react to the topics ‘plausibility check on investment costs’, ‘measuring and assessing of infrastructure caused changes in reliability’, as well as to a big survey on values of travel time savings (VTTS).