The Wider Economic Benefits of Transport Macro-, Meso- and Micro-Economic Transport Planning and Investment Tools

The standard cost-benefit analysis of transport infrastructure investment projects weighs a project's costs against users' benefits. This approach has been challenged on the grounds that it ignores wider economic impacts of such projects. At this International Transport Forum Round Table,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Transport Forum
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2008
Series:ITF Round Tables
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Transport Infrastructure inside and across Urban Regions
  • Progress and Challenges in the Application of Economic Analysis for transport Policy and Decidion Making
  • The Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation
  • Agglomeration Economies and Transport Investment
  • Summary of Discussions
  • The Broarder Benefits of Transportation Infrastructure
  • Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport
  • Recent Evolution of research into the Wider Economic Benefit of Transport Infrastructure Investments