Introduction

Infrastructure Australia will be using Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) as a key tool in the solution prioritisation stage of the framework.

Infrastructure Australia will be working collaboratively with stakeholders to assist and guide them in preparing appraisals and presenting the key results and assumptions.  

The following material provides guidance on: 

• what costs and benefits to include in the appraisals; 

• what assumptions and key variables should be used; and 

• how to present the appraisal results and assumptions. 

Infrastructure Australia expects that the information requested in the templates, and referred to in this guidance, should already be available in economic analyses which proponents will have had prepared (and considered) as part of their normal infrastructure planning processes.  In other words, any credible economic appraisal would address the matters set out below and have considered the information required in the tables that follow.