Public Transport Authorities’ use of Cost-Benefit Analysis in practice

Andreas Vigren and Anders Ljungberg

Research in Transportation Economics, 2018, vol. 69, issue C, 560-567

Abstract: Given the Swedish national goals for transport and infrastructure, economic efficiency is essential also in public transport. In 2003, Ljungberg (2007) sought to answer to which extent PTAs use Cost-Benefit analyses (CBA), a methodology to assess economic efficiency, in their planning of operations and infrastructure. It was found that CBA was seldom used. This paper tries to answer the same question, but for year 2016. The aim of this paper is to see to what extent PTAs are using CBA at the time of the survey, and investigate whether there are any changes with the previous study.

Keywords: Cost Benefit Analysis; Economic efficiency; Survey; CBA usage; Decision support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 D61 L91 L98 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2018.06.001

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