Download or read book Assessing the Economic Impacts of Transportation Improvement Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In that a transportation system can influence an economy for good or bad, a system that enhances economic vitality becomes a crucial element in maintaining or developing economic prosperity. To provide a methodology to include economic development impacts of transportation improvement projects in the decision making process and the tools and alternatives available are here explored"--Abstract.
Download or read book Assessing the Economic Impacts of Transportation Improvement Projects written by Andrew L. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In that a transportation system can influence an economy for good or bad a system that enhances economic vitality becomes a crucial element in maintaining or developing economic prosperity. To provide a methodology to include economic development impacts of transportation improvement projects in the decision making process and the tools and alternatives available are here explored. Primary contributions of this document are results of a literature review, transportation professional and decision maker survey, economic modeling tool evaluation, and development of approach alternatives. The following thesis introduces the purpose and need for the given research, the procedure that was followed, the preliminary results, and a committee recommended action arrived upon after consideration of the research findings.
Download or read book Assessing the Economic Impacts of Transportation Improvement Projects written by Grant G. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation planning is an important step for ensuring the vitality of the state of Utah. Providing a transportation system that enhances the economic vitality of the state is of utmost importance in maintaining the economic prosperity that is currently enjoyed in the state. To provide a methodology in which the economic development impacts of transportation improvement projects can be included in the decision making process, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) contracted with the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Brigham Young University (BYU) to explore the alternatives available to include this impact in the decision making process.
Download or read book Current Practices for Assessing Economic Development Impacts from Transportation Investments written by Glen Weisbrod and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis report will be of interest to DOT administrators, supervisors, and staff, as well as to the consultants working with them in assessing the economic development impacts of existing or proposed transportation investments. Metropolitan Planning Organization regional and local staffs might also find it informative. It is intended to help practicing planners become aware of the range of methods and analysis techniques available, organized by the different categories of agency needs, to address different types of planning, policy, and research needs. This synthesis summarizes the current state of the practice by means of a survey of transportation planning agencies in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This report provides reviews of the analysis methods used in recent project and program evaluation reports of these agencies, in addition to a bibliography of economic literature and guides.
Download or read book Understanding the Economics of Transportation in Utah written by Grant G. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study has prompted several recommendations intended to help UDOT better understand the economic impacts of transportation projects in Utah. Although this analysis provides a strong foundation, and outlines a process to analyze economic impacts from transportation projects in Utah, additional studies need to be completed.
Download or read book Transportation and Economic Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation Research Record 1274 is divided into 6 sections: Section 1-Economic Impact Methodology; Section 2-Modeling impacts of Transportation Investments; Section 3-Economic Impacts of Modal Investment; Section 4-Rural and Agricultural Impacts of Transportation Investments; Section 5-Case Studies of Modal Investment Impacts; Section 6-State Planning Issues in Transportation Investments for Economic Enhancement. Section 1 contains the following papers: Putting transportation and economic development into perspective; Role of transportation in manufacturers' satisfaction with location; Comprehensive framework for highway economic impact assessment: Methods and results; Methodology for assessing local land use impacts of highways; Framework for classifying and evaluating economic impacts caused by a transportation improvement; Bottlenecks and flexibility: Key concepts for identifying economic development impacts of transportation services. Section 2 contains the following papers: System dynamics modeling of development induced by transportation investment; Economic development impact of airports: A cross-sectional analysis of consumer surplus; Hybrid approach to estimating economic impacts using the regional input-output modeling system (RIMS II); Using risk assessment for aviation demand and economic impact forecasting in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Region; Transport in the Input-Output system. Section 3 contains the following papers: Highway stock and private- sector productivity; Airports and economic development: An overview; Economic impacts of improving general aviation airports; Economic impacts of transit on cities; Framework for analyzing the impact of fixed-guideway transit projects on land use and urban development; Distributional effects of state highway investment on local and regional development. Section 4 contains the following papers: Methodological review of analyses of rural transportation impacts in developing countries; Relationships between social and economic development and access to rural roads in developing countries; Transportation issues for agroindustrial project preparation and development; Transaction costs approach for estimating development benefits of rural feeder roads; Transportation and economic development in Botswana: A case study. Section 5 contains the following papers: Economic impacts of aviation on North Central Texas; Transportation factors as catalysts for international trade development, case study: East Boston, Massachusetts; Rail line abandonment and public acquisition impacts on econmic development. Section 6 contains the following papers: Role of non-interstate highway transportation in enhancing economic development in Iowa; Economic impact of Wisconsin's Transportation Economic Assistance Program; Overview of methodology; Conference summary.
Download or read book Assessing the Economic Impact of Transportation Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing the Effects of Highway widening Improvements on Urban and Suburban Areas written by Thomas Nelson Harvey and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis will be of interest to highway environmental specialists (particularly those concerned with assessing social and economic impacts), design engineers, planners, utility managers, and others responsible for the planning, design, and implementation of highway-widening improvements. Information is presented on the reasons for highway-widening projects, the nature of the projects, and the methods and practices for application of analytical techniques used to measure the potential or actual impacts of the projects on people and the physical environment. Mitigation measures are also discussed. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the most recent widening projects as reported by states or other transportation agencies, as well as the most frequently encountered issues in highway widening. Selected examples of widening projects are included, as is some recognition of the need for additional information and research in the areas of social and economic impact measurement.
Download or read book Assessing the Impact of Public Investment in Transportation on Wisconsin s Economy written by Jack R. Huddleston and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing the economic impact of transportation projects how to choose the appropriate technique for your project written by Glen Weisbrod and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidebook for Assessing the Social and Economic Effects of Transportation Projects written by David J. Forkenbrock and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Assessing the Environmental Impact of Public Mass Transportation Projects Notebook 3 Economic Impacts Final Report written by Andrew C. Lemer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transport Project Evaluation written by Elvira Haezendonck and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book puts transport cost benefit analysis in a wider, institutional perspective, relating it in particular to decision making. The book will be of interest to practitioners, consultants and academics who are active in the evaluation of transport projects. Erik T. Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands This is an important piece of work on project evaluation. An attractive feature is the balanced treatment of theory and application. The book provides very useful information on efforts of national governments in various countries to increase the quality of project evaluation studies by formulating guidelines for project evaluation. One of the strong points of the book is that it does not only address technical aspects of project evaluation tools, but also the institutional structures within which decisions are taken. Piet Rietveld, Vrije Universiteit and Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands This book revisits traditional evaluation methods, such as cost benefit analysis, to try and find a balance between the ever-increasing demand for transport, the search for sustainable mobility and green transport solutions, and the limited financial resources that governments are able to invest in transport infrastructure projects. In this respect, the effects of transport policy need to be measured and evaluated based on multiple criteria and the need to take into consideration a larger group of stakeholders and investors in transport projects. The book illustrates, methodologically and empirically, why and how the institutional and multi-actor environment impacts upon the analysis, evaluation and decision-making of transport projects in Europe. Including contributions from scholars with considerable expertise in the field, this book will be of great interest to consultants, policymakers and researchers.
Download or read book The Evaluation of Transportation Investment Projects written by Joseph Berechman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, the use of some kind of a formal transportation project evaluation procedure is a requirement. Yet, by and large, these are partial; in fact, much weight is often placed on the initial -pre-engineering -phases of the planning process, when vital information, such as accurate costs and demand projections, is largely missing. Moreover, many of these procedures neglect to consider key issues such as project’s risks, capital costs financing, latent demand, market imperfections, labor force availability and various incompatibilities between trip rates, travel times and activity location. As a result, projects, which are judged as viable under such deficient evaluation schemes, may have had a significantly different projection of capital costs and demand should a well-founded, thorough, and efficient evaluation process be used. Against this background, this book’s main objective is to construct a comprehensive and methodical economic, planning and decision-making framework for the evaluation of proposed transportation infrastructure investment projects. Such a framework is founded on four key principles. It is based on well-established economic, transportation and policy-analysis theoretical principles; it is comprehensive enough to encompass all relevant evaluation issues; it is applicable to a wide range of transportation investment projects; and it is amenable to empirical application including a sensitivity analysis and alternative scenarios regarding urban, regional and national developments.
Download or read book Estimating Economic Impacts from Transportation Investments Using the Texas Statewide Analysis Model and TREDIS written by Samuel Felix Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic analyses of transportation investments are a common component of transportation planning. The profile of economic analyses has continued to rise due to increasing budget constraints and increasing emphasis on infrastructure's role in spurring economic development. One tool that has been developed specifically for transportation economic impact evaluation is the Transportation Economic Development Impact System (TREDIS). Common inputs for TREDIS are changes in travel characteristics caused by network improvements. Another commonly used planning tool is a travel demand model. Since 2003, the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) has worked on the development of the Statewide Analysis Model (SAM) which estimates travel characteristics for passenger and freight modes. Together, the models have the potential to improve project evaluation and to highlight the roles that certain projects have in creating economic development. The hypothesis explored for this study is that SAM and TREDIS can be feasibly used together to help TXDOT evaluate the economic impacts of investments in freight corridors and other transportation investments. This report begins with general discussions of transportation economic analyses and the two models used. Then, the current SAM is evaluated using TREDIS followed by a discussion of the results and ways that this type of integrated planning can be incorporated by agencies. Through this study, key results include: the process of incorporating results from the SAM for use in TREDIS is feasible, an overall benefit-cost ratio of 4 for the entire set of long range roadway projects included in the SAM and 8 for only the interstate projects included in the SAM, rail and other transportation analyses are feasible using SAM and TREDIS.
Download or read book Transportation Decision Making written by Kumares C. Sinha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decisionmaking in transportation project development and programming, whichcan help transportation professionals to optimize their investmentchoices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies forevaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs andimpacts are taken into consideration. The text's logical organization gets readers started with asolid foundation in basic principles and then progressively buildson that foundation. Topics covered include: Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimatingtravel demand, and costing transportation projects Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts forsuch factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operatingcosts Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and landuse as well as its impact on society and culture Assessing a project's environmental impact, including airquality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multipleperformance criteria Programming transportation investments so that resources can beoptimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-widegoals Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followedby a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation isdiscussed and available software for performing evaluations ispresented. At the end of each chapter, readers are providedresources for detailed investigation of particular topics. Theseinclude Internet sites and publications of international anddomestic agencies and research institutions. The authors alsoprovide a companion Web site that offers updates, data foranalysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decisionmaking. Given that billions of dollars are spent each year ontransportation systems in the United States alone, and that thereis a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision makingfor cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this textshould be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers,and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is anideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysisand evaluation.
Download or read book Guidance for Communicating the Economic Impacts of Transportation Investments written by Hagler Bailly Services, Inc and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
