Download or read book ITF Roundtable Reports Quantifying the Socio economic Benefits of Transport written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report sets out several of the recent advances, and suggests the most promising approaches, to the quantification and valuation of some of the wider economic benefits that flow from transport-related development. Economic appraisal can offer decision-makers important insights into the ...
Download or read book Quantifying the Socio economic Benefits of Transport written by OECD (Paris). and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report sets out several of the recent advances, and suggests the most promising approaches, to the quantification and valuation of some of the wider economic benefits that flow from transport-related development. Economic appraisal can offer decision-makers important insights into the expected socio-economic impacts of transport projects. The sophistication of modern supply chains and the growing prominence of the services sector have increased the interest of decision-makers in economic benefits beyond those traditionally captured in transport appraisal.
Download or read book ITF Round Tables The Wider Economic Benefits of Transport Macro Meso and Micro Economic Transport Planning and Investment Tools written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Round Table challenges the standard cost-benefit analysis of transport infrastructure investment projects on the grounds that it ignores wider economic impacts of such projects.
Download or read book ITF Roundtable Reports Ex Post Assessment of Transport Investments and Policy Interventions written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-post evaluation is important to improving the delivery of transport policy objectives. It can be used for multiple purposes at the core of which is the improvement of ex-ante assessment. A small number of jurisdictions employ ex-post evaluation systematically and leading experience is ...
Download or read book ITF Round Tables Major Transport Infrastructure Projects and Economic Development written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the state of the art in understanding the economic effects of major transport infrastructure projects. It examines the limits of socio-economic cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and reviews the development of approaches to assessing the benefits of investment in large projects.
Download or read book ITF Round Tables Improving the Practice of Transport Project Appraisal written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the extent to which shortcomings in cost-benefit analysis for tranport projects can be addressed, focusing on equity and distributional impacts, agglomeration benefits and external costs. It also shows how best to present guidance on project selection to decision makers.
Download or read book ITF Roundtable Reports Public Private Partnerships for Transport Infrastructure Renegotiation and Economic Outcomes written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are an important vehicle for private participation in infrastructure investment, delivery and management. Renegotiations are an integral part of the PPP process but their prevalence varies markedly in different parts of the world. Renegotiations can be ...
Download or read book Socioeconomic Impacts of High Speed Rail Systems written by Francesca Pagliara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new insights into the wider socioeconomic impacts of high-speed rail (HSR). Over the past few decades, significant investments have been made in these systems around the world. The use of public funds for the construction of high-speed rail offers a range of benefits, such as time savings, increased comfort, and reduced traffic congestion, as well as broader economic benefits, including the advancement of less developed regions. These proceedings feature papers presented at the 2nd International Workshop on the Socioeconomic Impacts of High-Speed Rail. The focus is on HSR’s impacts on equity and integration, the land use system, productivity, the environment, the tourism industry, and cooperation and integration with other modes of transport. The book provides an overview of the current state of practice from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Consequently, it will be of interest to scholars of transportation economics and related fields, as well as transportation industry professionals.
Download or read book Productivity Perspectives written by Philip McCann and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Productivity Perspectives offers a timely and stimulating social science view on the productivity debate, drawing on the work of the ESRC funded Productivity Insights Network. The book examines the drivers and inhibitors of UK productivity growth in the light of international evidence, and the resulting dramatic slowdown and flatlining of productivity growth in the UK. The reasons for this so-called productivity puzzle are not well understood, and this book advances explanations and insights on these issues from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives. It will be of value to all those interested in, and engaging with, the challenge of slowing productivity growth.
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Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys United Kingdom 2017 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a good performance until 2016, growth slowed in the first half of 2017. The unemployment rate has fallen to below 4.5%, but real wages are in a downward trend. Planned Brexit has raised uncertainty and dented business investment. Negotiating the closest possible EU-UK economic relationship...
Download or read book Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems written by Jean-Claude Thill and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents cutting‐edge research on urban and regional systems applying modern spatial analytical techniques of Geographic Information Science & Technologies (GIS&T), spatial statistics, and location modeling. The contributions, written by leading scholars from around the globe, adopt a spatially explicit analytical perspective and highlight methodological innovations and substantive breakthroughs on many facets of the socioeconomic and environmental reality of urban and regional contexts. The book is divided into three parts: The first part offers an introduction to the research field, while the second part discusses critical issues in urban growth and urban management, presenting case studies on city and urban environments, their growth, data infrastructures and spatial and management issues. The third part then broadens the analysis to the regional scale, addressing growth, convergence and adaptation to new economic and information‐based realities. This book appeals to scholars of spatial and regional sciences as well as to policy decision-makers interested in advanced methods of spatial analysis, location modeling, and GIS&T.
Download or read book ITF Roundtable Reports Improving the Quality of Walking and Cycling in Cities Summary and Conclusions written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the current conditions of walking and cycling in cities. It reviews the literature on the potential benefits of active mobility, highlighting the importance of moving away from car-centric development. It also explores how cities developed into car-centric environments, with a particular focus on moto-normative assumptions. The report offers recommendations for re-centring mobility spaces on people to improve the quality, enjoyment, utility and safety of active mobility.
Download or read book The Wider Economic Benefits of Transport written by International Transport Forum (ITF) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing the Benefits of Transport written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the full economic benefits - and costs - of transport infrastructure and explores ways to make good estimates of the full impact of planned investments on regional and national economies.
Download or read book ITF Round Tables Valuing Convenience in Public Transport written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report focuses on convenience in public transport and its importance to the user experience. It reviews operational definitions of convenience, evidence for the willingness of users to pay for convenience and the use of indicators to assess and improve the convenience of public transport.
Download or read book ECMT Round Tables Research Relevant to Trends in Transport Over the Coming Decade Report of the Seventy Fifth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 28 29 January 1987 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1987-12-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Round Table examines research relevant to trends in transport in the coming decade examining the political and economic context, financing, demand and supply and methodological issues.
