Application of Benefit-Cost Analysis to the Proposed California High-Speed Rail System

2001 ◽  
Vol 1742 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Brand ◽  
Mark R. Kiefer ◽  
Thomas E. Parody ◽  
Shomik R. Mehndiratta
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Rail System ◽  
Benefit Cost

High-Speed Rail in Portugal

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
David Besanko ◽  
João Tenreiro Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Polio Eradication ◽  
Global Public Good ◽  
List Type ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Benefit Cost ◽  
Development And Management

Rede Alta Velocidade, SA (RAVE), the state-owned company responsible for planning and developing a major high-speed rail project in Portugal, must persuade both public officials and lenders that the project is worth undertaking. It must also make a recommendation on the appropriate organizational form for the enterprise. Specifically, it must determine the role of the Portuguese government in financing and operating the high-speed rail network, with options ranging from full development and management of the project by the public sector to completely private development and management. Lying in between these two polar cases were a variety of hybrid models, often referred to as public-private partnerships (PPPs). Using data in the case, students have the opportunity to perform a benefit-cost analysis of the project. They also must think carefully about the optimal role of the government in a major new infrastructure project.After analyzing and discussing the case, students will be able to: Understand the nature of a global public good Perform a back-of-the-envelope benefit-cost analysis of polio eradication Discuss the appropriate strategy for eradicating an infectious disease Apply game theory to analyzing which countries would be likely to contribute funds toward global polio eradication Discuss the role of private organizations in the provision of global public goods

scholarly journals Social Profitability Threshold of High Speed Railway:A Benefit-Cost Analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Pablo Coto-Millán ◽  
Vicente Inglada ◽  
Pedro Casares
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Benefit Cost

Developing Guidelines for Median Barrier Installation

2005 ◽  
Vol 1904 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaw-Pin Miaou ◽  
Roger P. Bligh ◽  
Dominique Lord
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Bayes Estimation ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Transportation Research ◽  
Benefit Cost

Guidelines for the installation of median barriers presented in the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide have remained essentially unchanged for more than 30 years. In recent years, the need for improved guidance has prompted several states to reevaluate their guidelines and has also precipitated a nationwide research project administered by the Transportation Research Board. The objective of the study, on which this paper is based, was to develop improved guidelines for the use of median barriers on new and existing high-speed, multilane, divided highways in Texas. The purpose here is to present some modeling and benefit–cost analysis results from that study, with a focus on the results from a particular data set developed under a cross-sectional with–without study design. The highways of interest are those classified as Interstates, freeways, and expressways with four or more lanes and posted speed limits of 55 mph (88 km/h) or higher. The models employed to estimate median-related crash frequencies and severities, including the Poisson-gamma and ordered multinomial logit models as well as modeling results from a full Bayes estimation method, are presented. From the modeling results, a preliminary benefit–cost analysis is described, in conjunction with some sensitivity analyses, for developing the guidelines for concrete and high-tension-cable barriers. A discussion of the limitations of this study and potential future extensions is provided.

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