Valuing Walking Amenity Benefits for Place-making Projects

Valuing walking amenity benefits arising from place-making projects appears to be a major gap in the national economic appraisal guidelines in Australia. The purpose of this paper is to identify the limitations in appraising place-making projects and to provide an interim approach in the absence of primary research in Australia. The paper reviews international evidence on the values of walking amenity and proposes a methodology which applies the international evidence to the Australian context. A case study is presented which quantifies the improved walking amenity for a complete street design project in Sydney. The case study results demonstrate that walking amenity can be potentially quantified and included in economic appraisals of place-making projects.

• Record URL:
  https://www.australasiantransportresearchforum.org.au/papers/2019
• Authors:
  • Tsai, P
• Conference:
  • Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), 41st, 2019, Canberra, ACT, Australia
• Publication Date: 2019-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 7 p
• Monograph Title: 41st Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), 30 September to 2 October 2019, Canberra, ACT

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Economics; Methodology; Walking
• Geographic Terms: Sydney, NSW
• ATRI Terms: Case study; Economics; Methodology; Transport facilities; Walking
• Subject Areas: Economics; Pedestrians and Bicyclists;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01733434
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB Group Limited
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 16 2020 12:01PM