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2011/28
29 Nov 2011
The ‘Grand Paris' Project: Tools and Challenges André de Palma
The purpose of this Round Table is to assess the economic effects of major transport infrastructure projects. The term "major projects" is used to designate qualitative leaps, be it the mapping out of new road or rail rings to link disparate radial penetration routes or the introduction of...
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2011/27
24 Nov 2011
The Evolution of London's Crossrail Scheme and the Development of the Department for Transport's Economic Appraisal Methods Tom Worsley
Cost benefit analysis has been used in the United Kingdom for the appraisal of road schemes over the past fifty years. It was less widely used for rail, where most investment was concerned with renewing the existing network. The Central London Rail Study (1988) used cost benefit analysis to...
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2011/26
29 Sep 2011
Accident Cost, Speed and Vehicle Mass Externalities, and Insurance Lars Hultkrantz, Gunnar Lindberg
Traffic accidents are a human tragedy that kills 1.2 million people worldwide annually (World Health Organization, 2004). The cost of traffic accidents are huge and recent estimates for US alone suggest the cost to be USD 433 billion in year 2000 or 4.3 percentage of GDP (Parry et al, 2007). A...
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2011/25
20 Sep 2011
Road Safety and Insurance Markets Overview Andrew Fronsko
Road trauma is the biggest killer of young people in the world. Reductions in the incidence and severity of road related trauma is of paramount importance to society, aimed at reducing the personal and economic burden to injured people and flow-on impact to families and the broader community...
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2011/24
20 Sep 2011
Road Safety Samantha Cockfield
The Transport Accident Commission of Victoria (TAC) was established, and is governed by, the Transport Accident Act 1986. The TAC administers a comprehensive no-fault compensation scheme for Victorians who are injured or die as a result of a transport accident. The Act also provides the TAC...
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2011/23
26 Oct 2011
Pay-as-you-Drive Vehicle Insurance as a Tool to Reduce Crash Risk Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Linda Steg
In this paper, we provide an extensive summary of a field experiment we have recently conducted on the behavioural effects of pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) vehicle insurance (Bolderdijk et al., 2011a). We start with a review of the rationale for PAYD schemes from a behavioural science perspective....
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2011/22
18 Oct 2011
A Framework for Assessing the Marginal External Accident Cost of Road Use and its Implications for Insurance Ratemaking Lasse Fridstrøm
The external accident cost of road use is a function of the marginal relationship between road use and accidents, as expressed, for instance, by the elasticity. This elasticity is, however, not necessarily constant, but may be assumed to depend on the traffic volume as seen in relation to road...
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2011/20
01 May 2011
Public Acceptability of Sustainable Transport Measures Alison Pridmore, Apollonia Miola
Increasingly, the debate on transport policy involves the challenge of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable transport is derived from the general term of sustainable development. Sustainable transportation can be considered by examining the sustainability of the transport system...
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2011/19
01 May 2011
Equitable Access: Remote and Rural Communities 'Transport Needs' Peter White
Transport in rural and remote regions receives considerable attention in research, but this is often focussed on specific means of resolving problems in those regions – for example, the role of demand-responsive bus services, or scope for attracting users to rail services. The aim of this paper...
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2011/18
01 May 2011
Key Mobility Challenges in Indian Cities Geetam Tiwari
The existing modal share in Indian cities is in favor of Non-motorized transport (NMT) and public transport. However given the hostile conditions for public transport and increasing risk to pedestrians and cyclists, the use of personal motorized vehicle is increasing. This trend is accompanied...
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2011/17
01 May 2011
State Roles in Providing Affordable Mass Transport Services for Low-Income Residents Robert Cervero
Governments support urban mass transport services worldwide under the guise of helping the poor and improving the environment. With more and more governments cash-strapped and facing budgetary shortfalls in other vital areas, the fiscal burdens of underwriting public transport have prompted...
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2011/16
01 May 2011
What Does Improved Fuel Economy Cost Consumers and What Does it Cost Taxpayers? Kurt van Dender, Philippe Crist
"Green growth" is an emerging paradigm that integrates several policy aspirations, including the durability of economic activity, reduced environmental impacts, and sustained growth in high-quality employment in such a way as to foster coherent, cross-sectoral policy design. Focusing on "green...
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2011/14
01 May 2011
Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies in Mexico Víctor Islas Rivera, Salvador Hernández G., José A. Arroyo Osorno, Martha Lelis Zaragoza, J. Ignacio Ruvalcaba
This report describes the main challenges to urban travel in Mexico. We focus on some of the basic causes of urban transport problems, and we analyze some urban travel policies that could be considered good practices towards sustainable urban development. Mexico City is the emblematic case.
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2011/13
01 May 2011
Air Transport Services in Remote Regions Svein Braathen
The need for public support. The existing programs for public support have been made with reference to the need for essential air transport services for providing local communities with lifeline transport services. However, the criteria for giving public support (via the programs in USA, Canada...
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2011/12
01 May 2011
Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies in China Haixiao Pan
Urban transport will have a great impact on sustainable development. China is now the leading producer of motorized vehicles, and people have gradually realized that we cannot sustain endless motorization. China has adopted a sustainable development policy for many years, promoting public...
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2011/11
01 Apr 2011
Gender and Transport Chantal Duchene
While greater account is increasingly being taken of gender in a variety of areas, little progress has been made in this respect in the transport sector. In both developed and developing countries, our societies are gendered in that women and men play different roles, notably because household...
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2011/10
01 Apr 2011
Meeting Society's Transport Needs under Tight Budgets OECD, International Transport Forum
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, both the private and public sectors face stringent constraints in funding for transport infrastructure investment and transport services. At the same time, economic recession highlights the social value of public support for disadvantaged users of...
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2011/09
01 Apr 2011
Economic Perspectives on Transport And Equality David Lewis
Poverty, inequality and social exclusion are closely tied to personal mobility and the accessibility of goods and services. Evidence of the economic role of transport in promoting better living standards and greater wellbeing can be seen in the effects of both overall public investment in...
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2011/07
01 Apr 2011
A Delicate Balance: Mobility and Access Needs, Expectations and Costs David Metz
Mobility has been central to economic development and social progress in the modern era. There is emerging evidence, however, that personal daily travel has recently ceased to grow in developed economies. The historic increase in mobility served to enlarge access to desired destinations and...
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2011/06
01 May 2011
Perspectives from Mexico to Achieve More with Less Adriana Lobo
The discussion presented below focuses on improving the decision-making process as the true challenge of mobility we face. It proposes a way of thinking about some of the key topics within each of the layers involved in decision-making at the strategic level, including attributes of the...
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2011/05
01 Apr 2011
Mobility: Rights, Obligations and Equity in an Ageing Society Ann Frye
Demographic trends worldwide indicate significant increases in the number of older people in the population in the coming years. There is a close link between age and disability, and the longer people live the more likely they are to become disabled to some degree. Disability takes many forms:...
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2011/04
01 Apr 2011
Cart or Horse: Transport and Economic Growth Tim Leunig
This paper argues that transport is more cart than horse, in that transport improvements are not the most important driver of economic growth for most countries. Nevertheless there are circumstances in which transport is particularly important. Big transport breakthroughs – such as replacing...
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2011/03
01 Apr 2011
Better Economic Regulation OECD, International Transport Forum
Good transport services contribute strongly to the productivity of an economy and extend the range of activities accessible to consumers. Good services require adequate infrastructure and reasonable usage conditions to that infrastructure. Much transport infrastructure is capital intensive and...
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2011/02
01 Feb 2011
Green Growth and Transport Stephen Perkins
Transport figures prominently on green growth agendas. The reason is twofold. First, transport has
major environmental impacts in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, local air emissions and noise. And
managing congestion more effectively is part of the broader agenda for more sustainable...
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2011/01
01 Jan 2011
Improving the Practice of Cost Benefit Analysis in Transport OECD, International Transport Forum
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is widely recognized to be helpful, even indispensible, for making good decisions on what transport projects to fund. It essentially aims to figure out which projects offer the best value for money, one of the core criteria for making decisions. However, the...
