Impact of Transport Infrastructure Investment on Regional Development [electronic resource].
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2002.
 Decisions to invest in transport infrastructure projects require careful deliberation. Governments need evaluation methods to ensure that their scarce resources are allocated in a way that maximises their net return to society. How can the efficiency of allocating funds for transport infrastructure be improved? Is the widely-used approach of cost-benefit analysis appropriate? Does transport infrastructure investment have wider impacts on regional development which need to be taken into account in determining infrastructure investment priorities? Do we find evidence of such impacts in evaluati
Description based upon print version of record.
""CONTENTS""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""Background and objectives""; ""Approach""; ""The evaluation framework""; ""Direct user benefits""; ""Wider effects on the transport network""; ""Socio-economic spillovers""; ""Case studies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter I INTRODUCTION""; ""Objectives""; ""Structure and scope of the report""; ""Defining regional development""; ""Chapter II POLICY SETTING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK""; ""Introduction""; ""Policy setting""; ""Context: cost-benefit analysis""; ""Evaluation framework""; ""Decision and policy making""
""Relevance to national and regional policy objectives""""Chapter III FORMAT FOR PROJECT DESCRIPTION""; ""Defining the project""; ""Project purpose and objectives""; ""Timeframe""; ""Risk evaluation""; ""Discount rate""; ""Traditional cost-benefit analysis""; ""Wider effects on the transport network""; ""Environment""; ""Project implementation""; ""References""; ""Chapter IV CASE STUDIES""; ""Need for ex-post studies""; ""Lessons from the ex-post studies""; ""Case studies""; ""Annex 1. Members of the Working Group on Effects of Transport Infrastructure Investment on Regional Investment""
""Annex 2. Land-use Impacts of Transport Infrastructure""
 Decisions to invest in transport infrastructure projects require careful deliberation. Governments need evaluation methods to ensure that their scarce resources are allocated in a way that maximises their net return to society. How can the efficiency of allocating funds for transport infrastructure be improved? Is the widely-used approach of cost-benefit analysis appropriate? Does transport infrastructure investment have wider impacts on regional development which need to be taken into account in determining infrastructure investment priorities? Do we find evidence of such impacts in evaluati
Regional planning -- OECD countries.
Transportation -- OECD countries -- Finance.