The evaluation of transportation investment projects
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New York
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Routledge
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2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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404p.: illus
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Routledge advances in management and business studies ;24
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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by Joseph Berechman
ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE
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1
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Objectives, scope and structure -- The policy framework of project evaluation -- Welfare foundations of project appraisal -- Transportation benefits from infrastructure improvements -- Measuring the costs of transportation investment projects -- Methods of project cost-benefit analysis -- Traffic flow, congestion and infrastructure investment -- Measurement of benefits from transportation improvements: computational issues -- Risk and uncertainty in transportation project evaluation -- Financing transportation investment projects -- Transportation improvements and equity -- Environmental and safety externalities -- Transportation investments and economic development -- Alternative methods of project selection -- Why are inferior transportation investment projects selected?