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The International Transport Forum at the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation with 52 member countries. It acts as a strategic think tank for transport policy and organizes an annual summit of ministers. Our work is underpinned by economic research, statistics collection and policy analysis, often undertaken in collaboration with many of the world's leading research figures in academia, business and government. This series of Discussion Papers is intended to disseminate the International Transport Forum’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned.
- ISSN: 20708270 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20708270
The Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation
An Overview
Economic contributions of investments of transport infrastructure are typically assessed
from a microeconomic perspective, which tries to identify the link between specific transport
infrastructure improvements and the productivity of specific production units. The traditional
economic tool of the microeconomic perspective is cost benefit analysis (CBA), an ex ante tool
which tries to capture the benefits of time and cost savings --- as well as further gains from
logistical improvements and facilities consolidation made possible by transport improvements ---
and the associated costs including external costs. The objective of this Round Table sponsored
by OECD / ECMT and Boston University is to identify and move towards methods which
incorporate the wider economic benefits of transport infrastructure, not typically captured in the
CBA estimates of benefits and costs.
The aim of this brief paper is to offer an overview of such wider economic benefits
ensuing from transport infrastructure investments.
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