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Evaluation of the Benefits of Transnational Transportation Projects
Jenkins, Glenn P.; Kuo, Chun Yan - 2002
to Argentina are estimated to be US $47.0 million and those accrue to Uruguay are about US $41.8 million. Brazilian …In this paper, we examine the impact of transnational transportation projects on cargo traffic and the distribution of … investment cost of the bridge. For regionally traded goods, consumers in Argentina and producers in Brazil would share equally …
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Cost overruns and demand shortfalls – deception or selection?
Eliasson, Jonas; Fosgerau, Mogens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A number of highly cited papers by Flyvbjerg and associates have shown that ex ante infrastructure appraisals tend to be overly optimistic. Ex post evaluations indicate a bias where investment costs are higher and benefits lower on average than predicted ex ante. These authors argue that the...
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Tarification optimale et formes contractuelles dans un programme d'infrastructures en ppp
Bonnafous, Alain - In: Revue économique 62 (2011) 5, pp. 813-834
Over the past twenty years, the growth in the use of ppps for news infrastructures did not knock down the bases of public economics. This article examines, however, in which measure it is advisable to modify the use of the cost-benefit analysis by the public authorities in the case of ppps, in...
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Evaluación económica del proyecto Sistema Estratégico de Transporte Público de Pasajeros para la Ciudad de Pasto""
Tiuso, César Alberto Arcos; Blasi, Luis David Pulido; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2011
Este trabajo presenta la evaluación financiera y económica del "Sistema Estratégico de Transporte Público de Pasajeros para la Ciudad de Pasto - SETP". Se desarrollo una metodología para la conceptualización y estimación de los beneficios y costos. Como resultado se destaca que el...
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Does benefit/cost-efficiency influence transport investment decisions?
Eliasson, Jonas; Börjesson, Maria; Odeck, James; … - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014
We explore how benefit-cost efficiency and electoral support affect road investment decisions in Sweden and Norway. In Norway, neither benefits nor costs seem to affect project selection. In Sweden, civil servants’ decisions are strongly affected by projects’ benefit-cost ratios, with a...
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Urban Public Transportation and Firm Location Choice Evidence from the Regional Express Rail of Paris Metropolitan area
Trevien, Corentin; Mayer, Thierry - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper identifies the causal impact of urban rail transport on firm location. The evaluation of transport infrastructures always faces an important issue of endogeneity since rail lines are not randomly located. We use the natural experiment offered by the Regional Express Rail (RER) in the...
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Valuation of public investment to support bicycling (FV-09)
Götschi, Thomas; Hintermann, Beat - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2013
<span lang="EN-US">In this paper we develop a framework to value public investments with the purpose of increasing bicycling that explicitly accounts internal costs of bicycling, which are typically neglected in current established approaches that value bicycle spending by means of gross health benefits alone, as...</span>
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A deliberative-participative procedure for sustainable urban mobility – Findings from a test in Bari (Italy)
Franceschini, S.; Marletto, G. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2014
Participation is advocated as an essential component of strategies and policies for sustainable urban mobility. This paper refers to the overall literature on participation and provides the design, test and ex-post evaluation of a deliberative-participative procedure (DPP) aimed at selecting a...
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Anticipatory Effects of Rail Upgrades: Auckland’s Western Line
Grimes, Arthur; Young, Chris - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2010
We examine effects of urban passenger rail upgrades to Auckland’s Western Line. The upgrades, and associated urban renewal projects, were announced in mid-2005. International experience indicates that the anticipated benefits of the upgrades should be factored into people’s location and...
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Automobile Usage and Urban Rail Transit Expansion
Xie, Lunyu - 2012
Using individual travel diary data collected before and after the rail transit coverage expansion in urban Beijing, this paper estimates the impact of rail accessibility improvement on the usage of rail transit, automobiles, buses, walking, and bicycling, measured as percent distance traveled by...
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