Do the selected Trans European transport investments pass the cost benefit test?

Stef Proost, Fay Dunkerley, Saskia Loo, Nicole Adler, Johannes Bröcker and Artem Korzhenevych ()

Transportation, 2014, vol. 41, issue 1, 107-132

Abstract: This paper assesses the economic justification for the selection of priority projects defined under the auspices of the Trans-European transport network. Three different transport models are used to analyse the costs and benefits associated with the current list of 30 priority projects. Most of these projects fail the cost-benefit test and few of the economically justifiable projects would need European subsidies to ensure their viability. Two remedies are proposed to minimise the inefficiencies surrounding project selection. The first remedy would oblige each member state or group of states to perform a cost-benefit analysis, followed by peer review and ensure that the results were published publicly prior to the ranking of federally funded priority projects. The second remedy would require federal funding to be made available only for projects with important spillovers to other countries in order to avoid pork barrel political behaviour. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Transport infrastructure; Cost benefit analysis; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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