Impact of Transport Infrastructure Investment on Regional Development

Decisions to invest in transport infrastructure projects require careful deliberation. Governments need evaluation methods to ensure that their scarce resources are allocated in a way that maximises their net return to society. How can the efficiency of allocating funds for transport infrastructure be improved? Is the widely-used approach of cost-benefit analysis appropriate? Does transport infrastructure investment have wider impacts on regional development which need to be taken into account in determining infrastructure investment priorities? Do we find evidence of such impacts in evaluatio

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Year of publication:	2002
Institutions:	OECD (contributor)
Publisher:	Paris : OECD Publishing
Subject:	Regionalentwicklung \| Regional development \| Infrastrukturinvestition \| Infrastructure investment \| Verkehrsinfrastruktur \| Transport infrastructure \| Räumliche Erreichbarkeit \| Spatial accessibility \| OECD-Staaten \| OECD countries \| Projektbewertung \| Project evaluation \| Effizienz \| Efficiency \| Transport \| Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (153 p.)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record CONTENTS; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; Background and objectives; Approach; The evaluation framework; Direct user benefits; Wider effects on the transport network; Socio-economic spillovers; Case studies; Conclusions; Chapter I INTRODUCTION; Objectives; Structure and scope of the report; Defining regional development; Chapter II POLICY SETTING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; Introduction; Policy setting; Context: cost-benefit analysis; Evaluation framework; Decision and policy making; Relevance to national and regional policy objectives; Chapter III FORMAT FOR PROJECT DESCRIPTION; Defining the project Project purpose and objectivesTimeframe; Risk evaluation; Discount rate; Traditional cost-benefit analysis; Wider effects on the transport network; Environment; Project implementation; References; Chapter IV CASE STUDIES; Need for ex-post studies; Lessons from the ex-post studies; Case studies; Annex 1. Members of the Working Group on Effects of Transport InfrastructureInvestment on Regional Investment; Annex 2. Land-use Impacts of Transport Infrastructure;
ISBN:	978-92-64-19759-6 ; 978-92-64-19352-9 ; 978-92-64-19352-9
Other identifiers:	10.1787/9789264193529-en [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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