ITF Round Tables Improving the Practice of Transport Project Appraisal


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This report examines the extent to which shortcomings in cost-benefit analysis for tranport projects can be addressed, focusing on equity and distributional impacts, agglomeration benefits and external costs. It also shows how best to present guidance on project selection to decision makers.







ITF Round Tables Stimulating Low-Carbon Vehicle Technologies


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This report reviews the rationale and measures for government intervention to improve fuel economy and reduce CO2 emissions from new vehicles.




ITF Round Tables Implementing Congestion Charges


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Recent advances in the scientific understanding of urban traffic congestion have only strengthened the already solid case for congestion charges as an element of a successful urban transport policy. This report draws lessons from attempts to introduce congestion charges.




ITF Round Tables Biofuels Linking Support to Performance


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The papers published in this report examine the economics of biofuels and assess the potential of conventional biofuel production in OECD countries, Brazilian ethanol exports and some second generation biofuels to supply world markets with transport fuels.







ITF Round Tables Privatisation and Regulation of Urban Transit Systems


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Examines experience in integrating private management and capital with public transport policy objectives in a number of developed economies.




ITF Round Tables Long-run Trends in Car Use


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The growth of car use in several advanced economies has slowed down, stopped, or turned negative. This report summarizes insights into the drivers of change in car use.




ITF Round Tables Oil Dependence Is Transport Running Out of Affordable Fuel?


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Assesses the policy instruments available to address oil security and climate change and examines their interaction with measures to manage congestion and mitigate local air pollution.




The Economic Appraisal of Investment Projects at the EIB - 2nd Edition


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The EIB performs economic appraisals of the projects it considers for investment. Thereby, it ensures that projects add sufficient value to society to merit support. Beyond considerations of financial profitability to investors, the economic appraisal also addresses the wider value generated by the project to society. This comprises benefits and costs to project final users, the taxpayer and third parties, allowing for all applicable market failures, such as environmental externalities. Since the publication of the first edition of this document in 2013, the EIB has been transformed into the EU Climate Bank. The way it values carbon emissions has been updated, as have various other elements of economic appraisal, in keeping with developments in the specialist literature, policy and practice. This second edition of the document gives the reader an updated view of how economic appraisal is currently conducted at the Bank. It also mentions the areas on which the EIB is currently working to ensure that it is at the forefront of economic appraisal practice.