Key to Understanding Detailed CBA Chart (Facility)

Overview:

These charts summarize details for requirements and facilities. The first table is the familiar breakdown of what is in our report: NPV, Total User Benefits, and Total Facility Costs and top drivers of each. The succeeding tables contain most of the specific information for understanding each facility. This document summarizes the key information cells.

Facility Data

Header Section

• Top left corner: Facility index, facility name
• Middle column: description whether facility is public or private (currently – will be expanded for facilities with both types)
• Number: number of existing facilities
• Growth: annual growth of facilities (determines number of new facilities)
• Elasticity: facility users' price responsiveness to increased use (based on published data)
• Market Price: total expenditures per visit per visit (if applicable)
• Sales $MM: total annual sales (if applicable)
• IA: income adjustment (proportion of disabled community that would go to a facility compared to general population)
• EOA & EOAn: measures ease of access at a facility. The ratio EOAn / EOA reflects the proportion of users who would have latent demand and would go more often with the proposed requirements.
• SA: percentage of total sales to persons with disabilities
• Savings minutes: total savings at the facility (all requirements)
• VOT average: average because different value of time for some different requirements
• VOTS: generalized price change = value of time * total time savings
• M: slope for demand curve (estimated from elasticity)
• Q0: total number of annual visits by persons with disabilities
• CS: annual consumer surplus (without new users)
• CSadj: Consumer surplus adjusted for new independent users
• Price per sf: used to estimate lost productive space cost Data Section: Results are provided for each facility
• #: ID number
• Requirement: Name of requirement
• BR: Total discounted barrier removal capital cost
• Alt: Total discounted alterations capital cost
• NC: Total discounted new construction capital cost
• OM: Total discounted OM cost
• Space: Total discounted loss of productive space cost
• Replace: Total discounted replacement cost
• SV: Total discounted salvage value cost (if necessary)
• Benf: Total discounted benefits
• NPV: Net present value

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