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No. 2017/03 | 28 Feb 2017 |
Towards a Framework for Identifying and Measuring the Benefits of Accessibility
This paper (i) explains the motivation for articulating the benefits of accessibility; (ii) provides a narrative basis for articulating how accessibility affects economic and social life; and (iii) moves a framework for quantifying the benefits of... |
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No. 2017/02 | 28 Feb 2017 |
The Benefits of Improving Access to the United Kingdom Rail Network via the Access For All Programme
“Access for All” is a United Kingdom government funded programme to make stations more accessible for people with disabilities by providing step free access along with complementary measures such as improved wayfinding information. Steer Davies... |
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No. 2017/01 | 28 Feb 2017 |
The Economics of Enhancing Accessibility
Inclusiveness affects the underlying thinking and consequential analysis of accessibility issues in transport. If the fundamental premise is that all people are equal and should be viewed as stakeholders in matters of public policy then it not only... |
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No. 2016/19 | 29 Sept 2016 |
Challenges in Better Co-ordinating Tokyo’s Urban Rail Services
This paper describes Tokyo’s urban rail market, which has traditionally been privately funded and operated; and discusses policies aimed at better coordinating public transport services. Although the industry has delivered high quality infrastructure... |
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No. 2016/18 | 13 Oct 2016 |
National Issues in the USA in Economic Development, Mobility, and Income Inequality
This assessment of the present context for evolving socio-economic patterns and trends in the United States is intended to support consideration of prospects for gains in income shares among the lower income population, recognising that the United... |
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No. 2016/17 | 13 Oct 2016 |
Perspectives for Integrating Housing Location Considerations and Transport Planning as a Means to Face Social Exclusion in Indian Cities
This paper highlights the urban development in India and implications for low income households living in informal settlements or slums. The paper is divided into four sections. Section 1 describes urban development pattern in India. Section 2... |
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No. 2016/16 | 13 Oct 2016 |
Balancing Financial Sustainability and Affordability in Public Transport
In order to meet the challenges of providing affordable public transit services for the urban poor and at a cost that doesn’t impinge on the system’s financial sustainability, cities can consider setting fares at “cost recovery” levels for the... |
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No. 2016/15 | 13 Oct 2016 |
How Equitable is Access to Opportunities and Basic Services Considering the Impact of the Level of Service?
Cities face the daily challenge of providing people with access to different activities through their public transport systems. Despite its importance, there is little research on accessibility that focuses on the use of this mode and even less... |
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No. 2016/14 | 13 Oct 2016 |
Housing Plus Transportation Affordability Indices
This technical paper provides an overview of the Center for Neighborhood Technology’s (CNT) H+T affordability index and its potential application outside of the United States (US), where it has played a prominent role in documenting the relationship... |
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No. 2016/13 | 13 Oct 2016 |
Is Congestion Pricing Fair?
This paper discusses and analyses whether congestion charges can be considered to be “fair” in different senses to the word. Two different perspectives are distinguished: the consumer perspective and the citizen perspective. The consumer perspective... |
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No. 2016/12 | 18 Sept 2016 |
Competitive Tendering in Local and Regional Public Transport in the Netherlands
This paper reviews evidence on the performance of urban public transport governance regimes in place in the Netherlands over the past 15 years. The national government decided to move from a system of ad hoc subsidy payments to one with more... |
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No. 2016/11 | 18 Sept 2016 |
High Speed Rail Competition in Italy
The European railway industry continues to undergo reform and liberalization due to European law incentives. Recent events in Italy give the country a special place in this process: a new competitor has commenced operations in the high-speed rail... |
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No. 2016/10 | 18 Sept 2016 |
Deregulation, Franchising, Outsourcing and Corporatisation in Local Public Transport
This paper explores the experience of developed countries that have introduced greater private sector involvement to traditionally government owned and run urban public transport industries. Such reforms have generally been driven by a desire to... |
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No. 2016/09 | 09 May 2016 |
Travel Behaviour Response to Major Transport System Disruptions
The current focus of transportation policy around disruptive events is to adopt an engineering resilience-oriented approach, which focuses on returning assets to good workable order as soon as possible. This will remain critically important in the... |
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No. 2016/08 | 26 Feb 2016 |
Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure
There is a drive towards delivering and operating public infrastructure through public-private partnerships as opposed to traditional approaches. The assessment of the value for money achieved by the two alternative approaches rests on both the cost... |
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No. 2016/07 | 11 Mar 2016 |
The Efficiency Impact of Open Access Competition in Rail Markets
On-track competition in passenger services has traditionally been limited in European railways, with private operators offering marginal services in selected corridors in the UK, Sweden and Germany only. In recent years, a larger scale and more... |
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No. 2016/06 | 31 Mar 2016 |
Quantifying the Socio-Economic Benefits of Transport
Socio-economic cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a powerful framework that can be very useful to governments making investment decisions. However the standard application of transport CBA has room for improvement. This paper describes efforts to improve... |
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No. 2016/05 | 23 Feb 2016 |
Incorporating Wider Economic Impacts within Cost-Benefit Appraisal
This paper analyses three main mechanisms through which transport improvements have impacts that deliver real income gain over and above user-benefits. One is economic density and productivity, a second is induced private investment and associated... |
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No. 2016/04 | 23 Feb 2016 |
The Valuation of Travel Time Variability
This paper provides an overview of some alternative conceptual definitions of travel time variability, discusses their implications about behaviour, and puts them into a broader context, including deviations from the underlying assumptions regarding... |
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No. 2016/03 | 23 Feb 2016 |
Estimating Wider Economic Impacts in Transport Project Prioritisation using Ex-Post Analysis
Transport project prioritisation and selection processes require consideration of many aspects of costs, intended benefits and other impacts. Economic analysis methods can measure many of those factors, though the analysis methods must be specified... |
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Towards a Framework for Identifying and Measuring the Benefits of Accessibility
Daphne Federing and David Lewis
28 Feb 2017
This paper (i) explains the motivation for articulating the benefits of accessibility; (ii) provides a narrative basis for articulating how accessibility affects economic and social life; and (iii) moves a framework for quantifying the benefits of...
The Benefits of Improving Access to the United Kingdom Rail Network via the Access For All Programme
Tony Duckenfield
28 Feb 2017
“Access for All” is a United Kingdom government funded programme to make stations more accessible for people with disabilities by providing step free access along with complementary measures such as improved wayfinding information. Steer Davies...
The Economics of Enhancing Accessibility
Bridget R.D. Burdett, Stuart M. Locke and Frank Scrimgeour
28 Feb 2017
Inclusiveness affects the underlying thinking and consequential analysis of accessibility issues in transport. If the fundamental premise is that all people are equal and should be viewed as stakeholders in matters of public policy then it not only...
Challenges in Better Co-ordinating Tokyo’s Urban Rail Services
Hironori Kato
29 Sept 2016
This paper describes Tokyo’s urban rail market, which has traditionally been privately funded and operated; and discusses policies aimed at better coordinating public transport services. Although the industry has delivered high quality infrastructure...
National Issues in the USA in Economic Development, Mobility, and Income Inequality
Alan E. Pisarski
13 Oct 2016
This assessment of the present context for evolving socio-economic patterns and trends in the United States is intended to support consideration of prospects for gains in income shares among the lower income population, recognising that the United...
Perspectives for Integrating Housing Location Considerations and Transport Planning as a Means to Face Social Exclusion in Indian Cities
Geetam Tiwari
13 Oct 2016
This paper highlights the urban development in India and implications for low income households living in informal settlements or slums. The paper is divided into four sections. Section 1 describes urban development pattern in India. Section 2...
Balancing Financial Sustainability and Affordability in Public Transport
Camila Rodríguez Hernández and Tatiana Peralta-Quiros
13 Oct 2016
In order to meet the challenges of providing affordable public transit services for the urban poor and at a cost that doesn’t impinge on the system’s financial sustainability, cities can consider setting fares at “cost recovery” levels for the...
How Equitable is Access to Opportunities and Basic Services Considering the Impact of the Level of Service?
Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Juan Carlos Muñoz and Ricardo Hurtubia
13 Oct 2016
Cities face the daily challenge of providing people with access to different activities through their public transport systems. Despite its importance, there is little research on accessibility that focuses on the use of this mode and even less...
Housing Plus Transportation Affordability Indices
Erick Guerra and Mariel Kirschen
13 Oct 2016
This technical paper provides an overview of the Center for Neighborhood Technology’s (CNT) H+T affordability index and its potential application outside of the United States (US), where it has played a prominent role in documenting the relationship...
Is Congestion Pricing Fair?
Jonas Eliasson
13 Oct 2016
This paper discusses and analyses whether congestion charges can be considered to be “fair” in different senses to the word. Two different perspectives are distinguished: the consumer perspective and the citizen perspective. The consumer perspective...
Competitive Tendering in Local and Regional Public Transport in the Netherlands
Didier van de Velde and Fons Savelberg
18 Sept 2016
This paper reviews evidence on the performance of urban public transport governance regimes in place in the Netherlands over the past 15 years. The national government decided to move from a system of ad hoc subsidy payments to one with more...
High Speed Rail Competition in Italy
Christian Desmaris
18 Sept 2016
The European railway industry continues to undergo reform and liberalization due to European law incentives. Recent events in Italy give the country a special place in this process: a new competitor has commenced operations in the high-speed rail...
Deregulation, Franchising, Outsourcing and Corporatisation in Local Public Transport
Graham Currie
18 Sept 2016
This paper explores the experience of developed countries that have introduced greater private sector involvement to traditionally government owned and run urban public transport industries. Such reforms have generally been driven by a desire to...
Travel Behaviour Response to Major Transport System Disruptions
Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable, Jeremy Shires and Iain Docherty
09 May 2016
The current focus of transportation policy around disruptive events is to adopt an engineering resilience-oriented approach, which focuses on returning assets to good workable order as soon as possible. This will remain critically important in the...
Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure
Dejan Makovšek and Marian Moszoro
26 Feb 2016
There is a drive towards delivering and operating public infrastructure through public-private partnerships as opposed to traditional approaches. The assessment of the value for money achieved by the two alternative approaches rests on both the cost...
The Efficiency Impact of Open Access Competition in Rail Markets
Lorenzo Casullo
11 Mar 2016
On-track competition in passenger services has traditionally been limited in European railways, with private operators offering marginal services in selected corridors in the UK, Sweden and Germany only. In recent years, a larger scale and more...
Quantifying the Socio-Economic Benefits of Transport
Daniel Veryard
31 Mar 2016
Socio-economic cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a powerful framework that can be very useful to governments making investment decisions. However the standard application of transport CBA has room for improvement. This paper describes efforts to improve...
Incorporating Wider Economic Impacts within Cost-Benefit Appraisal
Anthony J. Venables
23 Feb 2016
This paper analyses three main mechanisms through which transport improvements have impacts that deliver real income gain over and above user-benefits. One is economic density and productivity, a second is induced private investment and associated...
The Valuation of Travel Time Variability
Mogens Fosgerau
23 Feb 2016
This paper provides an overview of some alternative conceptual definitions of travel time variability, discusses their implications about behaviour, and puts them into a broader context, including deviations from the underlying assumptions regarding...
Estimating Wider Economic Impacts in Transport Project Prioritisation using Ex-Post Analysis
Glen E. Weisbrod
23 Feb 2016
Transport project prioritisation and selection processes require consideration of many aspects of costs, intended benefits and other impacts. Economic analysis methods can measure many of those factors, though the analysis methods must be specified...