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No. 2008/22 | 01 Nov 2008 |
Economic Impact Analysis of Terrorism Events
National security is a basic responsibility of national governments, but it is also intangible. What can economic analysis contribute? Benefit-cost analysis has rarely been applied because of the ambiguous and commons nature of the benefits. Our... |
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No. 2007/13 | 01 Dec 2007 |
Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Infrastructure
This paper begins by motivating the need for including “wider economic effects” when conducting transport infrastructure appraisal, followed by a discussion of various techniques to do so. The major focus is on studies from the cost function... |
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No. 2009/31 | 01 Dec 2009 |
Does SEA Change Outcomes?
This paper addresses the advocacy role that SEA can strategically play towards more sustainable and environmental decision-making and how this can be achieved. It discusses the required conditions for this performance and also the frustrations of SEA... |
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No. 2009/25 | 01 Dec 2009 |
Dedicated Lanes, Tolls and ITS Technology
This paper reviews the potential benefits from separating cars and trucks onto different lanes or roads while treating road infrastructure as given. U.S. studies of mixed traffic operations, lane restrictions and differential speed limits do not... |
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No. 2010/03 | 01 Jan 2010 |
Critical Success Factors for Implementing Road Charging Systems
Road user charging is used as an 'umbrella' term to describe a wide range of applications of pricing roads and infrastructure. Road user charging includes a number of charging measures that governments and other road owners use to: i) finance new or... |
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No. 2010/16 | 01 Nov 2010 |
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Transport
It has always been a controversial tool, generating accusations of unacceptable principle, improper application, inadequate evidence base and bias. One early application was to the appraisal of the proposed third London Airport where a critic... |
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No. 2009/07 | 01 Jun 2009 |
Competitive Interaction between Airports, Airlines and High-Speed Rail
This paper summarizes, structures, and provides some context for discussions of the round table mentioned in the title. The first part of the paper focuses on sources of market power for airports and on policy responses. When an airport is congested... |
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No. 2009/19 | 01 Dec 2009 |
Competition or Cooperation in Public Transport
Transport, especially public transport has been at the centre of professional attention from time to time. Although the effect of transport innovation shortly appears and it works high effectively in public transport (as you think of the innovation... |
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No. 2009/23 | 01 Dec 2009 |
Competition for Long Distance Passenger Rail Services
The aim of this paper is to review the emerging evidence on competition in the long distance passenger rail service. This draws on the three bodies of evidence. In section 2, we examine the ex-ante evidence from theoretical models based on Preston... |
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No. 2010/07 | 01 Feb 2010 |
Combinations of Instruments to Achieve Low-Carbon Vehicle-Miles
Policymakers and economists have considered a number of different policies to reduce carbon emissions, including a carbon tax, a cap-and-trade permit system, a subsidy for the purchase or use of low-carbon vehicle technology, a renewable fuel... |
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No. 2008/07 | 01 Jan 2008 |
Biofuels: Linking Support to Performance
This paper summarizes and organizes presentations in the Round Table's presentations and discussions, draws conclusions when possible, and points out where opinions differ. It is divided in three main sections. First, the presentations and... |
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No. 2009/04 | 01 Feb 2009 |
Are Horizontal Mergers and Vertical Integration a Problem?
This report examines market power in rail markets in Europe arising from horizontal and vertical mergers in the sector, and is intended to provide a high-level basis for discussion at the round table itself. It presents factual information on... |
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No. 2007/11 | 01 Dec 2007 |
Agglomeration Economies and Transport Investment
This paper is concerned with the links between agglomeration, productivity and transport investment. If improvements in transport systems give rise to changes in the mass of economic activity accessible to firms, for instance by reducing travel times... |
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Economic Impact Analysis of Terrorism Events
Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson
01 Nov 2008
National security is a basic responsibility of national governments, but it is also intangible. What can economic analysis contribute? Benefit-cost analysis has rarely been applied because of the ambiguous and commons nature of the benefits. Our...
Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Infrastructure
Jeffrey P. Cohen
01 Dec 2007
This paper begins by motivating the need for including “wider economic effects” when conducting transport infrastructure appraisal, followed by a discussion of various techniques to do so. The major focus is on studies from the cost function...
Does SEA Change Outcomes?
Mario R. Partidário
01 Dec 2009
This paper addresses the advocacy role that SEA can strategically play towards more sustainable and environmental decision-making and how this can be achieved. It discusses the required conditions for this performance and also the frustrations of SEA...
Dedicated Lanes, Tolls and ITS Technology
Robin Lindsey
01 Dec 2009
This paper reviews the potential benefits from separating cars and trucks onto different lanes or roads while treating road infrastructure as given. U.S. studies of mixed traffic operations, lane restrictions and differential speed limits do not...
Critical Success Factors for Implementing Road Charging Systems
Bernhard Oehry
01 Jan 2010
Road user charging is used as an 'umbrella' term to describe a wide range of applications of pricing roads and infrastructure. Road user charging includes a number of charging measures that governments and other road owners use to: i) finance new or...
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Transport
Peter Mackie
01 Nov 2010
It has always been a controversial tool, generating accusations of unacceptable principle, improper application, inadequate evidence base and bias. One early application was to the appraisal of the proposed third London Airport where a critic...
Competitive Interaction between Airports, Airlines and High-Speed Rail
International Transport Forum
01 Jun 2009
This paper summarizes, structures, and provides some context for discussions of the round table mentioned in the title. The first part of the paper focuses on sources of market power for airports and on policy responses. When an airport is congested...
Competition or Cooperation in Public Transport
International Transport Forum
01 Dec 2009
Transport, especially public transport has been at the centre of professional attention from time to time. Although the effect of transport innovation shortly appears and it works high effectively in public transport (as you think of the innovation...
Competition for Long Distance Passenger Rail Services
John Preston
01 Dec 2009
The aim of this paper is to review the emerging evidence on competition in the long distance passenger rail service. This draws on the three bodies of evidence. In section 2, we examine the ex-ante evidence from theoretical models based on Preston...
Combinations of Instruments to Achieve Low-Carbon Vehicle-Miles
Don Fullerton and Daniel H. Karney
01 Feb 2010
Policymakers and economists have considered a number of different policies to reduce carbon emissions, including a carbon tax, a cap-and-trade permit system, a subsidy for the purchase or use of low-carbon vehicle technology, a renewable fuel...
Biofuels: Linking Support to Performance
International Transport Forum
01 Jan 2008
This paper summarizes and organizes presentations in the Round Table's presentations and discussions, draws conclusions when possible, and points out where opinions differ. It is divided in three main sections. First, the presentations and...
Are Horizontal Mergers and Vertical Integration a Problem?
Simon Pilsbury and Andrew Meaney
01 Feb 2009
This report examines market power in rail markets in Europe arising from horizontal and vertical mergers in the sector, and is intended to provide a high-level basis for discussion at the round table itself. It presents factual information on...
Agglomeration Economies and Transport Investment
Daniel J. Graham
01 Dec 2007
This paper is concerned with the links between agglomeration, productivity and transport investment. If improvements in transport systems give rise to changes in the mass of economic activity accessible to firms, for instance by reducing travel times...