There is an increasing demand for transport decisions to be made in the light of some form of what may generically be called cost benefit analysis (CBA). The actual techniques may vary and often deviate quite significantly from the conventional economic concept of CBA but in all cases the...

The evidence on the implications of transport for regional economic and political integration is mixed. This is not surprising since transport is one element of a complex web of factors that determine the extent to which spatial areas become integrated. There are also good reasons to expect the...