ECONOMIC MEASUREMENT OF BENEFITS OF TRANSPORTATION

Presents an economic measure of the benefits of transportation. This measure allows proposed changes in an urban system in either transport or land use to be evaluated for urban planning purposes in terms of cost and accessibility. The benefit to cost ratio for the change may be expressed conveniently in terms of the ratio of costs and accessibilities of the two systems considered.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Authors:
  • Brotchie, J F
• Publication Date: 1976-2

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 17-26
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 102
  • Issue Number: TE1
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Benefit cost analysis; Costs; Land use; Mode choice; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Subject Areas: Environment; Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00133568
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering
• Report/Paper Numbers: ASCE #11931
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 5 1981 12:00AM