SOCIAL AUDIT AND AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT EVALUATION

The Bureau of Transport Economics was asked by the Commonwealth Minister for Transport to undertake a detailed study of evaluation procedures appropriate to transport issues in Australia. The terms of reference stated that the study should cover the interpretation of the social audit concept, the methodology for its application, the potential areas of application to Australian transport, and the development of guidelines and other proposals for promoting its use. Social cost-benefit analysis with planning balance-sheet presentation is the general approach which it is felt comes closest to providing an appropriate format for the application of social audit procedures in Australia. It preserves the disciplined approach to evaluation of social cost-benefit analysis, while providing scope for the full exposition of a wide range of non-monetary effects and distributional impacts. In so doing, it tends to offset a possible bias in many evaluations which highlight a single benefit-cost ratio based on those effects typically measured in monetary terms. A check-list of effects and affected parties based on a consideration of objectives of transport policy has been prepared as a broad guide in the preparation of planning balance-sheets for project appraisal. (TRRL) appraisal. (TRRL)

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• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 98 p.
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: 58

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Auditing; Benefit cost analysis; Deposits (Geology); Environment; Evaluation; Evaluation and assessment; Gypsum; Impact studies; Investments; Methodology; Public participation; Railroad tracks; Social factors; Sociology; Transportation; Transportation policy
• Geographic Terms: Australia; United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 2455: Environment; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 9112: Impact study; 227: Investment; 2748: Main road; 9102: Method; 142: Public participation; 2253: Sociology; 1155: Transport; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00451000
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-644-03502-1
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 27 2004 9:05PM