The purpose of this chapter is to provide a general guidance to conduct alternatives analysis. It includes procedures to screen and evaluate alternatives in terms of traffic and safety analysis, such as reduction in delay or travel time and reduction in crash severity and frequency. This chapter is intended to be used as a resource and informational guide for alternative development, criteria definition, and presentation of alternatives analysis results (alternative evaluation). Procedures for conducting traffic analyses, necessary to evaluate alternatives, are detailed in

Chapters 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,

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. This chapter emphasizes developing alternatives and evaluating alternatives.