DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS OF PUBLIC TRANSIT PROJECTS

The paper examines the basic issues related to efficiency and equity and reviews the existing techniques of including income redistributive effects in the evaluation of public projects with the objective of determining their applicability to the ease of urban mass transit projects. The current techniques of estimating the benefits of rapid transit as well as conventional bus systems and the quantification of their distribution among the various socioeconomic groups of beneficiaries are examined. It is pointed out that in the case of urban transportation projects, it is necessary for practical reasons to extend the concept of an equitable distribution of income to that of mobility or the opportunity to travel. Two alternative procedures based on the criteria of the dependence of individual groups on particular modes for different purposes are suggested for analyzing the distributive effects of urban transportation projects.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Chatterjee, A
  • Sinha, K C
• Publication Date: 1975-8

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 505-519
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 101
  • Issue Number: TE3
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Bus transportation; Income; Intercity bus lines; Mobility; Modal split; Public transit; Rapid transit; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00126425
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proc. Paper 11497
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 5 1981 12:00AM