Joseph Berechman

The Evaluation of Transportation Investment Projects (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout the world, the use of some kind of a formal transportation project evaluation procedure is a requirement. Yet, by and large, these are partial; in fact, much weight is often placed on the initial -pre-engineering -phases of the planning process, when vital information, such as accurate costs and demand projections, is largely missing. Moreover, many of these procedures neglect to consider key issues such as project's risks, capital costs financing, latent demand, market imperfections, labor force availability and various incompatibilities between trip rates, travel times and activity location. As a result, projects, which are judged as viable under such deficient evaluation schemes, may have had a significantly different projection of capital costs and demand should a well-founded, thorough, and efficient evaluation process be used.

Against this background, this book's main objective is to construct a comprehensive and methodical economic, planning and decision-making framework for the evaluation of proposed transportation infrastructure investment projects. Such a framework is founded on four key principles. It is based on well-established economic, transportation and policy-analysis theoretical principles; it is comprehensive enough to encompass all relevant evaluation issues; it is applicable to a wide range of transportation investment projects; and it is amenable to empirical application including a sensitivity analysis and alternative scenarios regarding urban, regional and national developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135214074
• Artikelnr.: 49984771

Autorenporträt

Joseph Berechman

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Objectives, Scope and Structure. 2. The Policy Framework of
Project Evaluation. 3. Welfare Foundations of Project Appraisal. 4.
Transportation Benefits from Infrastructure Improvements. 5. Measuring the
Costs of Transportation Investment Projects. 6. Methods of Project
Cost-Benefit Analysis. 7. Traffic Flow, Congestion and Infrastructure
Investment. 8. Measurement of Benefits from Transportation Improvements:
Computational Issues. 9. Risk and Uncertainty in Transportation Project
Evaluation. 10. Financing Transportation Investment Projects. 11.
Transportation Improvements and Equity. 12. Environmental and Safety
Externalities. 13. Transportation Investments and Economic Development. 14.
Alternative Methods of Project Selection. 15. Why Are Inferior
Transportation Investment Projects Selected? Notes. References. Index.