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Evaluation of the Benefits of Transnational Transportation Projects
Jenkins, Glenn P.; Kuo, Chun Yan - 2006
generated by transnational transport projects. In the transportation economics literature, the economic impact of infrastructure …
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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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Kasautumisvaikutusten arvioinnin menetelmät liikennejärjestelmän kehittämisen vaikutustarkastelussa
Haapamäki, Taina; Kauhanen, Antti; Laakso, Seppo; … - 2020
The spatial concentration of production and population to urban areas is an important theme in societal discussion. The spatial concentration of economic activity is called agglomeration in urban economics. The economic impact of agglomeration is seen in the productivity of firms. Understanding...
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Desigualdades socioespaciais de acesso a oportunidades nas cidades brasileiras - 2019
Pereira, Rafael H. M.; Braga, Carlos Kauê Vieira; … - 2019
One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education opportunities as well as cultural and leisure activities. Nonetheless, transport research and policies in Brazil are still largely focused on the challenges of reducing road...
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Estimating the impact of metro north
Morgenroth, Edgar L. W. - 2009
The single largest project under the Irish National Development Plan (NDP) 2007-2013, is the construction of a Metro system. Despite the fact that this is the largest project under the NDP and the government’s transport strategy, Transport 21, no cost benefit analysis on the project has been...
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Passenger transport planning : a benefit-cost analysis of the high speed railway : the case of Spain
Casares, Pedro; Coto-Millán, Pablo - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 2 (2011), pp. 1-12
In the current economical and financial crisis, the economic evaluation of transport infrastructure investment projects is of most importance. Given the need of most governments to reduce spending and control the deficit, having tools that facilitate decision-making seems to be a key objective....
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Valuation of public investment to support bicycling
Hintermann, Beat; Götschi, Thomas - 2013
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...
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Cost Benefit Analysis, Development Planning and the EU Cohesion Fund : Learning from Experience
Florio, Massimo - 2005
In this paper we consider the experience of transport and environmental evaluation in the framework of the Cohesion Fund, established by the EU in 1993 to co-finance through grants infrastructure projects in Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece, and more recently in the new Member States. We...
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Public - Private Associations in Mexico. Financing and Social Benefits in Road Infrastructure Projects
Lozano Montero, Eva - 2018
Public Private Partnerships in Mexico have become an alternative financing strategy for infrastructure development; thus, for the economic development of the country, mainly in the road sector. However, the operation of these Partnerships has caused controversy due to failed experiences that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930522
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Survival of the Un-fittest : Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built - and What We Can Do about It
Flyvbjerg, Bent - 2016
The article first describes characteristics of major infrastructure projects. Second, it documents a much neglected topic in economics: that ex ante estimates of costs and benefits are often very different from actual ex post costs and benefits. For large infrastructure projects the consequences...
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