Greetings, I am looking for advice on building a cost vs benefits model. I am using ArcGIS Pro and have the Spatial Analyst extension.
I am working with a rural community on assessing the costs and benefits of maintaining their road system. Each road segment has a estimated cost per year for maintenance and I am trying to figure out a way to estimate benefits made available to the community by maintaining each road segment.
The values we would like to use for the benefits side of the equation would come from a combination of layers: a raster for vegetation and a point file for points of interest.
I was thinking of using a buffer for the road to generate a value for each segment, but was also hoping to include some recognition of the values that may not be within the buffer distance but are accessible further down the road because the road segment in question provides access to other road segments with very high values.
Any ideas or references would be greatly appreciated.
bob
