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Ranking Transport Projects by their Socioeconomic Value or Financial Interest rate of return?

Bonnafous, Alain; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2005

This paper discusses the choice by the public authority of the most efficient programme of infrastructure investments …

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Transport, health and climate change: Deciding on the optimal policy

Cabantous, Laure; Chanel, Olivier; Vergnaud, Jean-Christophe - HAL - 2010

Transport generates many externalities, some related to atmospheric pollution. In this paper, we focus on two: greenhouse gases, and local pollution. In the search for optimal transport policies, these two externalities have usually been analysed separately. Here, we study them jointly, in a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929083

The reform of passenger rail in Switzerland: more performance without competition

Desmaris, Christian - HAL - 2013

The Swiss railway system is known for its high quality of service and integration in a particularly dense public transport system. People are generally less aware of ongoing institutional reform. This article strives to shed light on passenger traffic reform, and more particularly on regional...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692165

The determinants of urban public transport: an international comparison and econometric analysis

Joly, Iragaël; Masson, Sophie; Petiot, Romain - HAL - 2004

The analysis presented in this paper is based on the database created by the UITP (International Association of Public Transport), "The Millennium Cities Database", which covers the public transport systems in 100 of the world's cities. It contains data on demography, urban structure, transport...

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The link between travel Time Budget and Speed: a Key relationship for urban space-time dynamics

Joly, Iragaël - HAL - 2004

The relationship between travel time budget (TTB) and speed is central to transport economics and allows us to analyze travel behaviour, urban structure and the transport system. Together, this relationship and Zahavi's hypothesis provide a straightforward mechanism that explains the increase in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791891

Stochastic Risk vs. Policy Oriented Uncertainties: The Case of the Alpine Crossings

Brunel, Julien - HAL - 2004

This paper focuses on uncertainties in traffic forecasting. Three major sources of uncertainties are observed for freight demand models. The first one is the model specification itself. We are not interested by it. The second one concerns uncertainties over forecasting hypotheses. A mean to...

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Infrastructures Impacts Assessment, deliverable 4

Bonnel, Patrick; Raux, Charles; Petiot, Romain; Cusset, … - HAL - 2002

infrastructure investment project, and also to produce quantitative indicators. This report corresponds to the work package 4 of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791638

Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade:New Estimates for Central Asian Countries

Carrere, Céline; Grigoriou, Christopher - HAL - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade. The impact of … sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). Our findings highlight that an improvement in the own infrastructure of … exports (imports) by a modest 2.4% (3.1%). By contrast, an improvement in Central Asian transit-country infrastructure to the …

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The Third sector in Europe; Does it exhibit a converging movement?

Archambault, Edith - HAL - 2008

The European Union in its widening movement shows five clusters of Third sector organisations with complex bonds and ties with the surrounding societies and national identities In introduction, we compare briefly the Europe's Third sector features to North America's ones (Historical and...

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Is Public-Private Partnership Obsolete?

Ménard, Claude - HAL - 2011

Public-Private Partnership has been high on the agenda of public decision makers since the 1990's. Primarily a contractual approach to the delivery of infrastructures, goods and services traditionally provided by the public sector or by private operators submitted to tight regulation, PPP is...

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