Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9780309273602 Category : Highway research Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) S2-C11-RW-1: Development of Tools for Assessing Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation describes spreadsheet-based tools designed to help calculate a transportation project's impact on travel time reliability, market access, and intermodal connectivity. The report includes an accounting system designed to incorporate the three metrics into economic benefit and economic impact analyses.
Author: International Transport Forum Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9282101835 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
This Round Table challenges the standard cost-benefit analysis of transport infrastructure investment projects on the grounds that it ignores wider economic impacts of such projects.
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9282112845 Category : Languages : en Pages : 213
Book Description
This book discusses the full economic benefits - and costs - of transport infrastructure and explores ways to make good estimates of the full impact of planned investments on regional and national economies.
Author: Glen Weisbrod Publisher: Transportation Research Board ISBN: 9780309068734 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 88
Book Description
This synthesis report will be of interest to DOT administrators, supervisors, and staff, as well as to the consultants working with them in assessing the economic development impacts of existing or proposed transportation investments. Metropolitan Planning Organization regional and local staffs might also find it informative. It is intended to help practicing planners become aware of the range of methods and analysis techniques available, organized by the different categories of agency needs, to address different types of planning, policy, and research needs. This synthesis summarizes the current state of the practice by means of a survey of transportation planning agencies in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This report provides reviews of the analysis methods used in recent project and program evaluation reports of these agencies, in addition to a bibliography of economic literature and guides.