Policy and Project Appraisal at Regional Level
Overview
Background & policy context:
Policy and project appraisal for transport and environmental regulation has an important regional dimension. Environmental problems are mainly local, and regulatory measures are increasingly local. Impacts on the environment and economy are also local, not only in terms of distribution, but also from an efficiency point of view. Total efficiency gains for the total economy depend in fact, in part, on the regional design of the regulatory measures.
Objectives:
The principal aim of the project is to develop methods and indicators for the evaluation of both the direct and derived impacts of changes in the transport system and its regulation. Further, the aim is to develop methodologies to assess the environmental and economic impacts of transport system changes and changes in the regulation of the transport system.
Methodology:
The project is carried out as a case study on a (hypothetical) road pricing system in Denmark with three main activities:
- An extension of the evaluation of user benefits from transport activities to include option values and existence values.
- Development of measures and methods for spatial evaluation.
- The concrete case study of road pricing in Denmark.
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