Do the distributional preferences of national infrastructure planners diverge from those of the public?

Anders Bondemark (), Henrik Andersson and Karin Brundell-Freij
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Anders Bondemark: Swedish NatIonal Road and Transport Research Institute - parent
Henrik Andersson: TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Karin Brundell-Freij: Skane University Hospital [Lund], The Swedish Knowledge Centre for Public Transport

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Abstract: In this paper, we study how the distributional preferences of planners and the public diverge in the context of national infrastructure planning. To do so, we surveyed a sample of 323 planners working at the Swedish Transport Administration and 2,108 members of the Swedish public. The most striking difference is that planners place a relatively higher value on aggregate benefits than the public. Planners also place a significantly higher relative value on infrastructure plans that benefit rail transport compared to the public. It is our contention that planners value aggregate benefits relatively more highly because they have a better understanding of the attribute and because they have internalised the long-standing goal of an economically efficient Swedish transport sector.

Date: 2023-04
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Published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2023, 170, pp.103621. ⟨10.1016/j.tra.2023.103621⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2023.103621

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