Going beyond travel-time savings : an expanded framework for evaluating urban transport projects (English)

This paper challenges the widespread and often indiscriminant use of travel-time savings as a principal metric of economic benefits for evaluating urban transport projects. Time-budget theory and empirical evidence reveals that the benefits of a widened road or extended rail line often get expressed by more and longer trips to larger numbers of destinations and not by less time spent traveling. Induced travel demand can also erode time-savings benefits...

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Cervero,Robert;
Document Date
2011/01/01
Document Type
Working Paper
Report Number
70206
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2012/06/27
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Going beyond travel-time savings : an expanded framework for evaluating urban transport projects
Keywords
transportation research

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Cervero,Robert.

Going beyond travel-time savings : an expanded framework for evaluating urban transport projects (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/466801468178764085

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