Standard transport appraisal methods /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mouter, Niek (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Academic Press, 2020.
Colección:Advances in transport policy and planning ; v. 6.
Temas:
Transportation > Management.
Transportation > Evaluation.
Transportation and state > Evaluation.
Transport > Gestion.
Transport > �Evaluation.
Transportation and state > Evaluation
Transportation > Evaluation
Transportation > Management
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Standard Transport Appraisal Methods
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Overview of the book chapters
  • References
  • Chapter One: Cost-benefit analysis
  • 1. The CBA method
  • 1.1. History of CBA
  • 1.2. Welfare
  • 1.3. Pareto improvements and the Hicks-Kaldor criterion
  • 1.4. Total net willingness to pay
  • 1.5. CBA versus other methods
  • 2. State-of-the-art of the method
  • 2.1. Costs
  • 2.2. Risk and uncertainty
  • 2.3. Valuation methods
  • 2.4. Discussions on contingent valuation
  • 2.5. Discounting
  • 2.6. Wider economics benefits
  • 2.7. Critiques on CBA
  • 3. Application of CBA in practice
  • 3.1. Formal role of CBA
  • 3.2. Impact of CBA on decision making
  • 3.3. Opportunistic and symbolic use
  • 3.4. Barriers hampering the impact of CBA on political viewpoints
  • 3.5. What explains the positive attitude of politicians toward CBA?
  • 4. Future research challenges
  • 4.1. What does CBA actually measure?
  • 4.2. Improving the accuracy of estimations
  • 4.3. Risk and uncertainty
  • 4.4. Discount rate
  • 4.5. Wider economic benefits
  • 4.6. Improving the use of CBA in policy making
  • 4.7. Further developing well-being research
  • 4.8. Incorporating CBA in broader assessment frameworks
  • References
  • Chapter Two: Value of travel time and travel time reliability
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What is the value of travel time and what is it used for in practice?
  • 1.2. What is the value of travel time reliability?
  • 1.3. Theoretical foundations of the VTT
  • 1.4. Existing reviews
  • 1.5. Short history
  • 1.6. Overview of the chapter
  • 2. Methods used to determine the VTT (P-side)
  • 2.1. Cost savings vs SP and RP models
  • 2.2. SP experiments with reference-based choice situations
  • 2.3. Model specification
  • 2.4. The national VTT studies in Europe
  • 2.5. Three methods for the business VTT
  • 2.6. Determination of representative values for use in CBA
  • 2.7. Determination of VTT in freight transport
  • 3. Methods used to determine the VTTR (P-side)
  • 3.1. Mean-dispersion models
  • 3.2. Scheduling models
  • 3.3. Presentation of reliability in SP
  • 4. Selected outcomes for VTT and VTTR
  • 5. Methods used to forecast travel time gains and reliability gains (Q-side)
  • 6. Future research challenges
  • References
  • Chapter Three: The value of a statistical life
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background and theory
  • 2.1. Monetizing preferences
  • 2.2. One-period model
  • 2.2.1. The wealth and the dead-anyway effect
  • 2.2.2. Other selected predictions
  • 2.3. Multiperiod model
  • 3. Empirical methods
  • 3.1. Revealed-preference methods
  • 3.1.1. Hedonic prices
  • 3.2. Stated-preference methods
  • 3.2.1. The contingent valuation method
  • 3.2.2. Discrete choice experiments
  • 3.3. VSL and transportation-Empirical findings
  • 4. Discussion
  • References
  • Chapter Four: Transport models
  • 1. Introduction

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