This conference proceedings defines transport benchmarking, analyzes its usefulness to policy makers and discusses what lessons can be drawn at the national and international level for policy makers. The first part examines the different methodological aspects raised by benchmarking methods. The...

L’appréciation économique des politiques de sécurité routière pose le problème des méthodes que l’on emploie pour valoriser les mesures. A cet égard, il est frappant de constater que l’on a le choix entre deux méthodes qui reviennent soit à bien mesurer un concept peu pertinent...

In economic appraisals of road safety measures, determining which method to use for the valuation of those measures is a problem. There are two methods open to us. Remarkably, one accurately measures a non-relevant concept (the human capital method), while the other measures the correct...