Download or read book Project Appraisal Methods in the Transport Sector written by United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. Transport and Communications Division and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Project Appraisal Methods in the Transport Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 211 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 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 New Methods Reflections and Application Domains in Transport Appraisal written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Methods, Reflections and Application Domains in Transport Appraisal, Volume 7 in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series, assesses both successful and unsuccessful practices and policies from around the world. Chapters in this new release include Evaluating transport equity, Participatory Value Evaluation, Sustainability assessment of transport policies, plans and projects, Deliberative appraisal methods, Appraisal methods of public transport projects, Appraisal of cycling and pedestrian projects, Appraisal of Freight Project, Project appraisal methods: tools for optimizing or for informed political debate?, and Research agenda for appraisal methods. - Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors - Presents the latest release in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series
Download or read book A Set of Guidelines for Socio economic Cost Benefit Analysis of Transport Infrastructure Project Appraisal written by Peter J. Mackie and published by New York : United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe. This book was released on 2003 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report contains guidelines for the use of a socio-economic cost benefit analysis approach for the appraisal and selection of transport infrastructure projects. This approach seeks to place project appraisal within a wider economic context which also covers safety and environmental issues as well as local, regional and national policy-related aspects beyond the transport sector. The guidelines are intended to establish a basis for common appraisal methods within UNECE member states, and in particular for Commonwealth of Independent States member countries.
Download or read book Standard Transport Appraisal Methods written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standard Transport Appraisal Methods, Volume 6 in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series, assesses both successful and unsuccessful practices and policies from around the world. Chapters in this new release include Transport models, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Value of Travel Time Savings and reliability, Value of Statistical Life, Wider economic benefits, Multi-criteria analysis, Best-Worst Method, Participatory Value Evaluation, Ex-post evaluation, Sustainability assessment, Evaluating Transport Equity, Environmental Impact Assessment, Decision-Support Systems, Deliberative appraisal methods, Critique on appraisal methods, Appraisal methods in developing countries, Research agenda for appraisal methods, and much more. - Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors - Presents the latest release in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series
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 Transport Projects Programmes and Policies written by John Nellthorp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The European Union is constantly struggling to find effective ways to plan major transport infrastructure developments at a European level. This is a critical factor in the emerging debates surrounding the absorption of the accession states into the EU, but it is essential for these states that their economic competitiveness is supported by appropriate and effective transport infrastructure. It is therefore crucial to find innovative approaches to the infrastructure itself, how it is financed and the ways in which proper evaluation procedures are implemented to select which policies, programmes and projects should be supported. This informative volume brings together leading international specialists in economic evaluation applied within the transport sector. Their contributions encompass all the main levels at which transport planning is typically conceptualized - strategic/regional policy, programme and project planning. It therefore examines how coherent economic evaluation practice can be developed and applied not only across different physical scales, but also across national borders.
Download or read book Road Project Appraisal for Developing Countries written by John W. Dickey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1984 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook on road construction and maintenance project evaluation in developing countries - discusses information needs relating to the road network and road transport, technical aspects of roads, and the project objectives; provides evaluation techniques incl. Economic analysis, cost benefit analysis, price analysis, impact on agricultural production, analysis of training, monitoring, etc. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Download or read book Preparation and Appraisal of Transport Projects written by Brookings Institution. Transport Research Program and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ITF Round Tables written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OF DISCUSSIONS -- The Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Transport: The Case of France, by Emile QUINET -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Origins of Changes in the Doctrine -- 3. Project Evaluation Guidance -- 4. Assessments of Recent Programmes and Projects -- 5. Overall Decision on Cost-Benefit Analysis vs. Multi-Criteria Analysis -- 6. Some Ideas for Improving Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 7. Conclusion -- The Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Transport Sector: A Mexican Perspective, by Vladimir RAMÍREZ SOBERANIS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Institutional Framework (Stages of the Public Investment Process) -- 3. The Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Decisionmaking Process -- 4. Key Elements of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 5. Potential Development of Project Assessment Procedures -- 6. Conclusion -- Cost-Benefit Analysis in Transport: A UK Perspective, by Peter J. MACKIE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Role of Transport Appraisal -- 3. Transport CBA in the UK -- 4. Critiques of UK Transport Appraisal -- 5. Transport and the Economy -- 6. Concluding Thoughts -- List of Participants.
Download or read book Project Appraisal Framework written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation Policy and Project Evaluation written by Huajie Yang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning and Appraisal Recommendations for Megaproject Success written by Juan Alberti and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper compares two approaches to the evaluation of mega transport project success. The first one is called the “iron triangle” approach. Under this approach, a megaproject is considered successful when it is delivered on budget, on time, and in line with the required specifications. The second approach is here called the “holistic” view of megaproject success, which considers other commonly used criteria: social efficiency, effectiveness, equity, relevance, and political pay-off, among others. This paper shows how the way in which the success of a mega transport project is measured leads to different recommendations for the planning and appraisal stages. It shows that such recommendations may or may not be consistent with the nature of the problem these endeavors imply at the different stages. It is here argued that focusing on the “iron triangle” approach to success can promote planning and appraisal with a narrow view of the problem, by assuming consensus, encouraging depoliticization, understanding the problem as a mathematical optimization made by a single decision-maker. The “holistic” approach to success, on the other hand, favors more comprehensive and integrated ways of planning and appraising infrastructure megaprojects. It does so by promoting a reduction in data demands, focusing on simplicity and transparency aimed at clarifying the terms of conflict and accepting uncertainty, keeping options open, all while focusing on the actual criteria used by the relevant stakeholders. Common pitfalls of the application of the “iron triangle” approach to success at the planning and appraisal stages result from its failure to address the context and the usual impossibility to fix and maintain a desired state from the earliest stages of the project. On the other hand, when using the ”holistic” view, recommendations are based on what happens in fact, including project management variables as only one part of the criteria actually used when planning megaprojects. In order to promote a transparent pre-investment stage, the planning and appraisal of megaprojects should consider project management variables, while also accepting complexity and non-linearity, addressing the power of the context, as well as the influence of the stakeholders involved, reflecting the actual criteria used in the decision-making process.
Download or read book Economic Appraisal of Transport Projects written by Hans A. Adler and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the application of cost-benefit analysis to transportation investments in developing countries.
Download or read book Engineering Project Appraisal written by Martin Rogers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most cases of civil engineering development, a range of alternative schemes meeting project goals are feasible, so some form of evaluation must be carried out to select the most appropriate to take forward. Evaluation criteria usually include the economic, environmental and social contexts of a project as well as the engineering challenges, so engineers must be familiar with the processes and tools used. The second edition of Engineering Project Appraisal equips students with the understanding and analytical tools to carry out effective appraisals of alternative development schemes, using both economic and non-economic criteria. The building blocks of economic appraisal are covered early, leading to techniques such as net present worth, internal rate of return and annual worth. Cost Benefit Analysis is dealt with in detail, together with related methods such as Cost Effectiveness and the Goal Achievement Matrix. The text also details three multi-criteria models which have proved useful in the evaluation of proposals in the transportation, solid waste, energy and water resources fields: the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) Model, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique and Concordance Analysis. There is a full discussion dealing with risk and uncertainty in these models. With many worked examples and case studies, Engineering Project Appraisal is an essential text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students on professional civil engineering courses, and it is expected that students on planning and construction management courses will find it a valuable addition to their reading.
