Transport Projects, Programmes and Policies

John Nellthorp, Peter Mackie, Alan Pearman

• Contents: Part I: The Role of Evaluation: Transport appraisal in a policy context, Peter Mackie and John Nellthorp; Strategic transport planning evaluation - the Scandinavian experience, Henning Lauridsen; Old myths and new realities of transport infrastructure assessment: implications for EU interventions in Central Europe, Deike Peters; Norwegian urban road tolling - what role for evaluation?, Odd I. Larsen. Part II: Technical Aspects of Evaluation: Spatial economic impacts of transport infrastructure investments, Jan Oosterhaven and Thijs Knaap; The economic development effects of transport investments, David Banister and Yossi Berechman; European versus national-level evaluation: the case of the PBKAL high-speed rail project, Rana Roy; Welfare basis of evaluation, Marco Ponti; Conceptual foundations of cost-benefit analysis: a minimalist account, Robert Sugden. Part III: Evaluation in the Policy Process: Impact assessment of strategic road management and development plan of Finnish road administration, Eeva Linkama, Mervi Karhula, Seppo Lampinen and Anna Saarlo; Major infrastructure transport projects decision-making process: interactions between outputs and outcomes as a contemporary public action issue, Marianne Ollivier-Trigalo; Involving stakeholders in the evaluation of transport pricing, José M. Viegas and Rosário Macário; Accessibility analysis concepts and their application to transport policy, programme and project evaluation, Derek Halden; Strategic environmental assessment and its relationship to transportation projects, Paul Tomlinson and Chris Fry; Index.

’...This second volume of TRANSTALK papers combines theoretical presentations of a range of approaches with empiral description of how they are being applied in a number of European countries and contexts...The TRANSTALK papers demonstrate the immense value of attempting to integrate the range of disparate disciplines to confront the real complexity of the transport appraisal process.’ Professor Kenneth Gwilliam, formerly Economic Advisor to the Transport Sector of The World Bank '...a clear and well-written documentation... With a focus on transport infrastructure development at a European level the book contains a wealth of information for practitioners, researchers and others involved in the important and now truly cross-disciplinary professional field of planning and appraising new transport infrastructure. The book should be read by anyone with an interest in European transport infrastructure planning and development.' Professor Steen Leleur, Technical University of Denmark 'This collection of papers, drawing from a range of European experts provides a sense of what has been going on and where we currently are. It is a timely contribution that will inevitably be informative for the practitioner and policy maker, and stimulating for the academic.' Professor Kenneth Button, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA 'Developing an efficient trans-European transport network will be an important task for the enlarged Europe. It will need a rigorous assessment of the many projects submitted to the funding authorities. The reader will find in this book a review of the methodologies available for such wide scope assessments. This book's substantial content and the quality of its contributors make it an important reference in this field.' Professor Michel Beuthe, Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons (FUCAM), Belgium 'The book would be of particular interest to transport planning and transport engineering students, academics and practitioners with an inte