The evaluation of transportation investment projects [electronic resource] / Joseph Berechman.

This book constructs a comprehensive and methodical economic, planning and decision-making framework for the evaluation of proposed transportation infrastructure investment projects, based on well-established theoretical principles.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Berechman, Joseph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge advances in management and business studies ; 42.
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Table of Contents:
  • Objectives, scope, and structure
  • The policy framework of project evaluation
  • Welfare foundations of project appraisal
  • Transportation benefits from infrastructure improvements
  • Measuring the costs of transportation investment projects
  • Methods of project cost-benefit analysis
  • Traffic flow, congestion, and infrastructure investment
  • Measurement of benefits from transportation improvements: computational issues
  • Risk and uncertainty in transportation project evaluation
  • Financing transportation investment projects
  • Transportation improvements and equity
  • Environmental and safety externalities
  • Transportation investments and economic development
  • Alternative methods of project selection
  • Why are inferior transportation investment projects selected?