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Economic life, residual value and the discount rate
A highway project is often complex and long term, with the costs and benefits associated…
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Identifying all relevant costs and benefits
The application of cost-benefit for project assessment in the highway area is made more complicated…
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Cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
Introduction Within Europe, the method usually adopted for the economic evaluation of highway schemes, termed…
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Scheme Appraisal for Highway Projects
Introduction Once a transportation plan has been finalised and the demand along each of its…
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A full example of the four-stage transportation modelling process
Trip production Assume a study area is divided into seven zones (A, B, C, D,…
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Trip distribution
Introduction The previous model determined the number of trips produced by and attracted to each…
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Trip generation
Trip generation models provide a measure of the rate at which trips both in and…
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Forecasting Future Traffic Flows
Basic principles of traffic demand analysis If transport planners wish to modify a highway network…
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Environmental assessment
Any economic evaluation for a highway project must be viewed alongside its environmental and social…
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The decision-making process in highway and transport planning
Introduction Highway and transportation planning can be described as a process of making decisions which…