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Author : Chartered Institute of Transport in Australia. Victorian Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031401185
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264193529
This report describes evaluation methods for transport infrastructure investments to ensure that scarce resources are allocated in a way that maximises their net return to society.
Author : Corinne Swain,Tim Marshall,Tony Baden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415526043
Annotation This title chronicles recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010. It deals particularly with the regional scale of planning, where large steps forward were made during these years, but where policy making often proved very controversial.
Author : Joseph Berechman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135214081
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 : Tschangho J. Kim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461234104
The usual view in a mixed economy is that some goods and services are produced privately and some, such as transportation, are produced publicly. Private institutions, such as households and entrepreneurs, produce and con sume goods and services in pursuing their parochial interests, while the pub lic sector attempts to broaden public interests. More precisely, the public sector constructs new transportation systems, improves their capaci ties, and regulates services and prices; and the private sector chooses locations of pro duction, modes of transportation, and routes of shipmellt. At the sallie' Lillte'. all forms of transportation influence our lives and cause us concern for Oll r environment, health, and safety. Thus, transportation is intimately woven into the daily life of individuals and organizations in our society. Because of its constant presence, transportation is easy to overlook until it fails in some way. Few would contend that private firms could or should construct an effi cient transportation system in a mixed economic system. Because the entire transportation system must be integrated and coordinated, firms with the power to construct such a system would have considerable monopoly control.
Author : ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers),Michael D. Meyer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118762394
A multi-disciplinary approach to transportation planningfundamentals The Transportation Planning Handbook is a comprehensive,practice-oriented reference that presents the fundamental conceptsof transportation planning alongside proven techniques. This newfourth edition is more strongly focused on serving the needs of allusers, the role of safety in the planning process, andtransportation planning in the context of societal concerns,including the development of more sustainable transportationsolutions. The content structure has been redesigned with a newformat that promotes a more functionally driven multimodal approachto planning, design, and implementation, including guidance towardthe latest tools and technology. The material has been updated toreflect the latest changes to major transportation resources suchas the HCM, MUTCD, HSM, and more, including the most current ADAaccessibility regulations. Transportation planning has historically followed the rationalplanning model of defining objectives, identifying problems,generating and evaluating alternatives, and developing plans.Planners are increasingly expected to adopt a moremulti-disciplinary approach, especially in light of the risingimportance of sustainability and environmental concerns. This bookpresents the fundamentals of transportation planning in amultidisciplinary context, giving readers a practical reference forday-to-day answers. Serve the needs of all users Incorporate safety into the planning process Examine the latest transportation planning softwarepackages Get up to date on the latest standards, recommendations, andcodes Developed by The Institute of Transportation Engineers, thisbook is the culmination of over seventy years of transportationplanning solutions, fully updated to reflect the needs of achanging society. For a comprehensive guide with practical answers,The Transportation Planning Handbook is an essentialreference.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B5104368
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119593254
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556025406927
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : IND:30000139128601
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:237645327
Author : Canada. Transport Canada. Macro-Economic Analysis Division
Publisher : Division de l'analyse macroéconomique
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Capital investments
ISBN : NWU:35556021148127
Author : Ioanna Kourounioti,Lorant Tavasszy,Hanno Friedrich
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780128216811
Freight Transport Modeling in Emerging Countries examines freight transport models developed in emerging countries including Turkey, South Africa, India, Chile, and more. It provides a toolbox of successful freight transport model applications, alternative data collection methods, and evaluation techniques for the development of future policies. The book offers solutions for issues related to the urban, national, and international transportation of goods and examines new advances in freight transport models and data collection techniques and their applications in emerging countries. Emerging countries have unique transport-related policies, regulatory structures, logistics systems, and long-term uncertainties that hinder their economic development. This book tackles these issues by examining decision-making models for locating logistics sites such as ports and distribution centers, modeling urban freight movements in megacities and port cities, using existing datasets to get information when data is not available, implementing policies related to the national and international movements of goods, and more. Includes a wide variety of opinions and approaches from subject matter experts around the world Utilizes a case-based approach Includes a range of learning tools that feature chapter openers, end of chapter questions, a glossary, and more Examines new advances in freight transport models and data collection techniques
Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe. Inland Transport Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112122480699
During recent decades governments all around the world were faced with a complicated set of options for investing in transport, including transport infrastructure. This publication examines main principles for determining the most appropriate models for financing transport infrastructure expenditures but also illustrates and analyses many innovative ways to finance transport infrastructure. Financing, in this context, means the provision of money at the time and in the quantity, that is needed to meet society's transport infrastructure and transport service provision needs. Thus, financing is a basic underpinning of the entire process of providing and operating transport infrastructure. Accepting the view, that transport infrastructure is needed to provide a well-defined set of public services, at the highest-level financing the transport sector, including transport infrastructure expenditures, is fundamentally a sovereign task, which involves determining how much of the government's available (public) resources will be channelled into the transport infrastructure, during a given period, as opposed to other policy priorities. However, this report proves that this is not the case anymore. There are many other innovative ways from which transport infrastructure construction could be funded other than the government's available (public) resources.
Author : National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309155007
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 666: Target Setting Methods and Data Management to Support Performance-Based Resource Allocation by Transportation Agencies - Volume I: Research Report, and Volume II: Guide for Target-Setting and Data Management provides a framework and specific guidance for setting performance targets and for ensuring that appropriate data are available to support performance-based decision-making. Volume III to this report was published separately in an electronic-only format as NCHRP Web-Only Document 154. Volume III includes case studies of organizations investigated in the research used to develop NCHRP Report 666.