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Rethinking appraisal is key to a better transport system

Andrew Forster
16 September 2016
Travel fast or smart? A manifesto for an integrated transport policy is published by the London Publishing Partnership
Travel fast or smart? A manifesto for an integrated transport policy is published by the London Publishing Partnership

 

Transport economists may see their work on appraisal as fairly value-free but, for David Metz, the framework they have created over the last 50 years has skewed investment decisions – and not for the better. “Conventional transport economics has reached a dead end,” he writes in the preface to his new book.

The core of his argument is that the focus on user time savings in appraisal has created a bias in favour of civil engineering projects and, in particular, inter-urban...

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