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Author : Harry Benford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Economic Criteria for Decision Making in the Transportation Industry written by Harry Benford and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cathy Macharis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178811180X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Decision-Making for Sustainable Transport and Mobility written by Cathy Macharis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA) developed by Professor Cathy Macharis enables decision-makers within the sectors of transport, mobility and logistics to account for conflicting stakeholder interests. This book draws on 15 years of research and application during which MAMCA has been deployed to support sustainable decisions within the transport and mobility sectors.
Author : Kumares C. Sinha
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118169662
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
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.
Author : DRI/McGraw-Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book International Institutional Decision-making Criteria & Procedures & Transportation Infrastructure Data written by DRI/McGraw-Hill and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Applied Transport Economics: Policy, Management and Decision Making written by Stuart Cole and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Button
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Transport Economics written by Kenneth Button and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised edition of a textbook which applies economic analysis to transport issues. Topics covered include movement, transport and location, the demand for transport, its direct and external costs, pricing, investment criteria, planning and forecasting, development, regulation and more.
Author : Elvira Haezendonck
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847208681
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)
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.
Author : Joseph Berechman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135214077
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
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.
Author : Thomas Vanoutrive
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782548335
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Smart Transport Networks written by Thomas Vanoutrive and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very interesting book with peer-reviewed chapters written by leading researchers in the field discusses recent research in the areas of market structure, sustainability and decision-making. It includes several contemporary topics, such as changes in port competition, adaptation of transport to climate change, changing market structures, the importance of changing consumers preferences, errors in forecasting, and trends in international goods transport. Bert van Wee, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Transport is debated by many, and liberalization processes, transport policy, transport and climate change and increased competition between transport modes are the subject of heated discussion. Smart Transport Networks illustrates that whether concerning road, water, rail or air, knowledge on the structure of transport markets is crucial in order to tackle transport issues. The book therefore explores key factors concerning the structure of transport markets, their environmental impact, and questions why decision makers often fail to tackle transport-related problems. Three of the key factors that underpin the relationship between transport and society are analysed in detail from a variety of perspectives, each with an empirical focus: market structure and the allocation mechanisms at work; sustainability, encompassing the characteristics of the physical environment, the availability of natural resources and the effects of transport activities; and decision making, detailing transport policy and attempts to change transport systems. Practical guidelines on how to effectively deal with complex transport issues are also presented. This book will prove an important resource read for academics, researchers, and students with an interest in economics particularly transport and public sector economics, geography and regional and urban studies. Policy makers and planners in the fields of transport, environment and regional planning will also find this book to be an invaluable reference tool.
Author : European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher : Conference
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Assessment and Decision Making for Sustainable Transport written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by Conference. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Conference of Ministers of Transport is an inter-governmental organisation comprised of government ministers responsible for inland transport policy from 43 member countries. This report makes recommendations for good practice in integrated infrastructure planning and sustainable transport policy development, including Resolution 2003/1 agreed by Ministers at the ECMT Council meeting in Brussels in April 2003. The recommendations are based upon reviews of recent experience in seven member countries (France, Italy, Netherlands, UK, Finland, Germany and Spain).
Author : Stuart Cole
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780749439644
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Applied Transport Economics written by Stuart Cole and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fully updated third edition of an established transport textbook."--Publisher's description.
Author : Liana Giorgi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351748491
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Project and Policy Evaluation in Transport written by Liana Giorgi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: There is a multitude of assessment methods available for analyzing and reporting on the impacts of policies, all with different underlying assumptions and a wide range of criteria. Since the 1950s, much research has gone into creating guidelines for policy analysis, yet only a small percentage of evaluation has been carried out on transport policy - and none by political scientists or social policy specialists. The editors of this volume recognize that European integration has seen a drive to bring policy evaluation on to the transport agenda and has increased demands for ’strategic assessments’. It has become apparent that to gain a fuller understanding of the success of a transport programme, a much more complex combination of analytical methods must be used, and a set of guidelines specifically for the field of transport must be developed. This book achieves this by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of analysts from throughout the EU to discuss in a much broader way the various types of assessment methods and how they can best be used to evaluate transport programmes and systems, both individually and in combination.
Author : Louis Berger International, inc
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 9780309063135
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Economic Trends and Multimodal Transportation Requirements written by Louis Berger International, inc and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Strategic Transportation Data Needs
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 9780309051569
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Data for Decisions written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Strategic Transportation Data Needs and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB Special Report 234 - Data for Decisions: Requirements for National Transportation Policy Making examines data requirements necessary to support strategic transportation policy making and the institutional changes necessary to make those data available on a permanent basis. The report calls for the establishment of a statistical agency within USDOT (this recommendation became helped create the Bureau of Transportation Statistics), the development of performance indicators, and regular reporting to the Secretary and Congress on important trends in system performance.
Author : Joseph Berechman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319746065
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Infrastructure We Ride On written by Joseph Berechman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various economic and institutional factors that explain why huge investments are made in unworthy transportation mega-projects in the US and other countries. It is based on research, the general literature, economic analyses, and results from a specifically collected database showing that a significant proportion of implemented mega-projects have been found to be inferior ex-ante or incapable of delivering the returns they promised ex-post. Transportation infrastructure and other public investments of a similar scope (“mega-projects”) reflect public sector priorities and objectives, non-pecuniary as well as financial constraints, and a range of decision-making processes. This book describes how decisions made in the public sector with respect to transportation infrastructure investments are affected by the large populations and territories they serve, the estimation of the substantial opportunity costs they entail, the formal procedures instituted for quantitatively appraising projected outcomes and monetary returns, and the political environment in which these decisions are made.
Author : Barry E Prentice
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9814656186
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Concepts Of Transportation Economics written by Barry E Prentice and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation is the world's largest invisible industry. Modern society is completely dependent on transportation to sustain its way of life, and it is all around us constantly. Yet the economics of transportation is a mystery to most people. Why do air fares rise and fall? Why do urban transit systems struggle to survive and require such large public subsidies? Why does freight transport cost more to move in one direction than an equal distance in another? Why is the government so heavily involved in transportation? Concepts of Transportation Economics provides explanations to these queries and many more, as well-renowned experts in the field, Barry E Prentice and Darren Prokop interpret the unique dynamics underlying transportation through the lens of applied economics, and demonstrate that the operations of transportation are completely logical and obvious once the concepts that underlie business decisions and consumer reactions are explained.
Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
ISBN 13 : 8835102561
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The decision-making process for infrastructural investment choices written by AA. VV. and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2020-06-19T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 380.401
