It’s fast approaching the end of the year and the festive season, and I have a few things on my mind. First, how I’ll fit in all of my holiday plans and projects within my period of leave, which always seems to pass oh so quickly! But more important are the two issues of global financial...

Transport sector has a long tradition of using the principles of practical cost benefit analysis (CBA) in project appraisal that analyses the primary impacts of transport investments. The standard transport project assessment is necessary but not sufficient for the estimation of the wider...

In der kommunalpolitischen und planerischen Diskussion zum Stadtverkehr verstecken sich in vielfältigen Themen zugleich auch Fragen der Zeitgerechtigkeit. Sie werden nur punktuell von Betroffenengruppen artikuliert und sind im Sinne der Verfahrensgerechtigkeit im Planungsprozess nur selten...

Die kommunale Bauleitplanung mit ihrer umfassenden Einbeziehung der Umwelt und Gesundheitsbelange, den vielfältigen Festsetzungsmöglichkeiten im Interesse von Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz und dem Entscheidungsmaßstab des Gebots gerechter Abwägung ist im Wesentlichen ein Instrument für die...

With perpetual strains on resources, road agencies need to develop network-level decision-making frameworks to ensure optimum resource allocation. This is especially true for intelligent transport systems (ITS), and in particular, variable message signs (VMS), a key component of incident...

Sustainable development is about making societal investments. These investments should be in synchronization with the natural environment, trends of social development, as well as organisational and local economies over a long time span. Traditionally in the eyes of clients, project development...

Highway construction often requires a significant capital input; therefore it often causes serious financial implications for developers, owners and operators. The recent industry-wide focus on sustainability has added a new dimension to the evaluation of highway projects, particularly on the...

With increasing pressure to provide environmentally responsible infrastructure products and services, stakeholders are putting significant foci on the early identification of financial viability and outcome of infrastructure projects. Traditionally, there has been an imbalance between...