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Economic life, residual value and the discount rate
A highway project is often complex and long term, with the costs and benefits associated with it occurring over a…
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Identifying all relevant costs and benefits
The application of cost-benefit for project assessment in the highway area is made more complicated by the wide array of…
Highway Engineering 4 min read
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
Introduction Within Europe, the method usually adopted for the economic evaluation of highway schemes, termed cost-benefit analysis, utilises the net…
Highway Engineering 5 min read
Scheme Appraisal for Highway Projects
Introduction Once a transportation plan has been finalised and the demand along each of its highway links has been established,…
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A full example of the four-stage transportation modelling process
Trip production Assume a study area is divided into seven zones (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) as indicated…
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Trip distribution
Introduction The previous model determined the number of trips produced by and attracted to each zone within the study area…
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Trip generation
Trip generation models provide a measure of the rate at which trips both in and out of the zone in…
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Forecasting Future Traffic Flows
Basic principles of traffic demand analysis If transport planners wish to modify a highway network either by constructing a new…
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Environmental assessment
Any economic evaluation for a highway project must be viewed alongside its environmental and social consequences. This area of evaluation…
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The decision-making process in highway and transport planning
Introduction Highway and transportation planning can be described as a process of making decisions which concerns the future of a…
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Transportation studies
Whatever the nature of the proposed highway system under consideration, be it a new motorway to link two cities or…
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Highway planning strategies
When the highway planning process takes place within a large urban area and other transport options such as rail and…