TY - CHAP
T1 - Appraisal of freight projects and policies
AU - Tavasszy, Lóránt
AU - Reis, Vasco
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Freight transport systems are facing ever-growing demand and increasingly stringent requirements. Governments are pressured to develop new policies and fund new projects that drive forward the freight transport systems. We provide an overview of typical evaluation approaches used for freight transport policies and projects, from the public policy perspective. We make a simple introduction to the freight transport system, including the most representative agents and components. We introduce a basic framework, briefly reviewing some key literature on the topic and describe the salient features of the state of freight transport appraisal practice today. We also introduce the main freight transport modeling approaches that support project appraisal. We distinguish three types of freight projects according to their geographical scope—global, national and local level—as the appraisal techniques differ. Cost-Benefit Analysis is the prevalent technique in global level projects and very common in national level projects. Multicriteria Analysis type approaches dominate at the local level. Finally, we identify research challenges related to appraisal of freight transport projects and policies.
AB - Freight transport systems are facing ever-growing demand and increasingly stringent requirements. Governments are pressured to develop new policies and fund new projects that drive forward the freight transport systems. We provide an overview of typical evaluation approaches used for freight transport policies and projects, from the public policy perspective. We make a simple introduction to the freight transport system, including the most representative agents and components. We introduce a basic framework, briefly reviewing some key literature on the topic and describe the salient features of the state of freight transport appraisal practice today. We also introduce the main freight transport modeling approaches that support project appraisal. We distinguish three types of freight projects according to their geographical scope—global, national and local level—as the appraisal techniques differ. Cost-Benefit Analysis is the prevalent technique in global level projects and very common in national level projects. Multicriteria Analysis type approaches dominate at the local level. Finally, we identify research challenges related to appraisal of freight transport projects and policies.
KW - Cost-benefit analysis
KW - Freight transport
KW - Freight transport models
KW - Multi-criteria analysis
KW - Project appraisal
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103251352&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/bs.atpp.2021.01.002
DO - 10.1016/bs.atpp.2021.01.002
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85103251352
SN - 9780323855594
VL - 7
T3 - Advances in Transport Policy and Planning
SP - 205
EP - 233
BT - Advances in Transport Policy and Planning
A2 - Mouter, Niek
PB - Elsevier
ER -