TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 424: Engineering Economic Analysis Practices for Highway Investment explores how U.S. transportation agencies have applied engineering economics--benefit–cost analyses and similar procedures--to decisions on highway investments.
Economic Analysis for Highways
This textbook provides a fundamental overview of the application of engineering economic principles to transportation infrastructure investments.
This is a textbook for engineering and management/business undergraduates and postgraduate students and a reference for practicing engineers or managers who are familiar with their projects but less familiar with financial/economic analysis ...
These evaluations generally rely on timesseries data to compare changes in economic conditions ( in a study area ) before and after transportation investment is made . Many of them use some control group , statistical method ...
This is a textbook for engineering and management/business undergraduates and postgraduate students and a reference for practicing engineers or managers who are familiar with their projects but less familiar with financial/economic analysis ...
This tenth edition of the market-leading Engineering Economic Analysis offers comprehensive coverage of financial and economic decision-making for engineers, with an emphasis on problem solving, life-cycle costs, and the time value of money ...
This comprehensive work discusses planning methodologies and best practices, and features global case studies, research projects, and references to the literature to support the principles presented.
regional , and statewide systems of investments . ... 18 months Handbook : 6 months Total : 39 months The assumptions that underlie the microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches to transportation evaluation differ significantly .
This synthesis presents a brief overview of the traditional economic- analysis methods that have been used in the analysis of highway engineering alternatives. Then, because the earliest work in cost-...
The Byway corridor has limited public transportation services to serve current and future regional and Byway destinations, ... State departments of transportation often use corridor studies as a way to identify multimodal capacity and ...