Using risk analysis to determine the potential range of lifecycle costs for urban transit systems

David. P. Ashmore and Nigel G. Harris

Transport Reviews, 2000, vol. 20, issue 4, 403-420

Abstract: Intense competition for limited public funding for urban transport projects can often result in proponents of individual schemes presenting minimized costs and maximized benefits to funding bodies to try to ensure that their scheme is chosen above others for funding. This presents public bodies with a problem, especially in an era when they are keen to attract private contributions for transit schemes. Risk modelling techniques can be of great assistance in ascertaining ranges of costs and benefits for individual submissions and deciding upon which projects should receive priority-not only those with greatest cost-benefit indices, but also those whose indices have low levels of associated risk to allay the fears of the traditionally risk averse private sector.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1080/01441640050150667

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