FACTS AND FURPHIES IN BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS: TRANSPORT
Benefit-cost analysis (BCA) is a valuable and widely used tool. To reduce the odds of misuse, this report probes some important methodological issues, especially as they relate to transport projects. The discussion is relatively non-technical and draws on case studies. The issues examined include claims that transport projects fail to measure certain benefits: employment creation, regional development, logistic adaptations and 'positive externalities'. Also examined are the choice of discount rate, the treatment of taxes, the valuation of travel time, multi-criteria analysis as an alternative to BCA, and the role of national economic models. (a)
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AGPS
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CANBERRA, ACT Australia 2600 -
Authors:
- LUSKIN, D
- Publication Date: 1999
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 243 p.
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Serial:
- AUSTRALIA. BUREAU OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS (BTE). REPORT
- Issue Number: 100
- Publisher: AGPS
- ISSN: 1440-9569
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Competition; Costs; Development; Evaluation and assessment; Investments; Mathematical models; Measurement; Methodology; Occupations; Railroad tracks; Regions; Road construction; Taxes; Time; Transportation; Travel time; Trip length
- ITRD Terms: 235: Competition; 224: Cost; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 9013: Development; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 227: Investment; 697: Journey time; 6473: Mathematical model; 6136: Measurement; 9102: Method; 2271: Occupation; 378: Region; 3665: Road construction; 268: Tax; 5414: Time; 1155: Transport
- Subject Areas: Finance; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00796413
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- ISBN: 0-642-42239-7
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 2 2000 12:00AM