Transport Project Evaluation

Transport Project Evaluation
Author: Elvira Haezendonck
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1847208681

This timely book puts transport cost benefit analysis in a wider, institutional perspective, relating it in particular to decision making. The book will be of interest to practitioners, consultants and academics who are active in the evaluation of transport projects. Erik T. Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands This is an important piece of work on project evaluation. An attractive feature is the balanced treatment of theory and application. The book provides very useful information on efforts of national governments in various countries to increase the quality of project evaluation studies by formulating guidelines for project evaluation. One of the strong points of the book is that it does not only address technical aspects of project evaluation tools, but also the institutional structures within which decisions are taken. Piet Rietveld, Vrije Universiteit and Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands This book revisits traditional evaluation methods, such as cost benefit analysis, to try and find a balance between the ever-increasing demand for transport, the search for sustainable mobility and green transport solutions, and the limited financial resources that governments are able to invest in transport infrastructure projects. In this respect, the effects of transport policy need to be measured and evaluated based on multiple criteria and the need to take into consideration a larger group of stakeholders and investors in transport projects. The book illustrates, methodologically and empirically, why and how the institutional and multi-actor environment impacts upon the analysis, evaluation and decision-making of transport projects in Europe. Including contributions from scholars with considerable expertise in the field, this book will be of great interest to consultants, policymakers and researchers.

Project Evaluation in Regional Perspective

Project Evaluation in Regional Perspective
Author: Clive Bell
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1982
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book discusses the total effects of the project on incomes and the net demands for goods and services in the economy. The differences between the total effects and the direct effects, the theme of this book, are usually called the project's indirect or downstream effects. The downstream effects of a private project are of no interest to the entrepreneur who undertakes it; but when such effects arise from a project in the public sector, they should be of keen interest to the people who evaluate and finance such projects. There are a number of obvious questions: How large are the downstream effects and who reaps the benefits or losses? Will they be concentrated largely in the immediate geographical region in which the project is located? What will be their impact on government revenues? These are not new questions. Yet there have not been many attempts to provide quantitative estimates of the downstream effects of particular projects. Thus, although this book places a strong emphasis on methods, it is based on a case study of a project that was completed in the mid-1970s, the Muda Irrigation Project.

Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation

Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation
Author: H. Craig Davis
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1990
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 0774803509

This book provides a non-technical introduction to the fundamental principles and techniques of regional impact and evaluation analysis. The book is written for readers who have a minimal background in mathematics and economics and so the materials listed in the bibliographies have been chosen for their accessibility to such readers. References to relevant papers of a more technical nature are indicated in notes in each reference.Unlike existing texts, which usually concentrate on regional impact or evaluation analysis, Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation offers an extensive introduction to both these subjects, since both are critical to the study and practice of regional economic analysis.Two case studies, intended as illustrations of practical applications, are included in each of the six chapters that deal with specific principles or techniques. While many of the case studies and much of the literature cited in the bibliographies is Canadian, a substantial portion is from the United States and Great Britain, demonstrating that the principles and techniques discussed in this book are universally applicable.

Guidelines for Project Evaluation

Guidelines for Project Evaluation
Author: Partha Dasgupta
Publisher: New York : United Nations
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1972
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This publication represents the cumulative experience of UNIDO in the methodology and practice of national benefit-cost analysis for industrial project preparation and evaluation. UNIDO's work in this field began with the Interregional Symposium on Project Preparation and Evaluation held in Prague in 1965. On the basis of the recommendations of this symposium, UNIDO undertook to develop a set of guidelines which the developing countries could use for incorporating the evaluation and approval of new industrial projects into their over-all industrial planning mechanism.

Project Evaluation

Project Evaluation
Author: Knut Samset
Publisher: Fagbokforlaget
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Organizations increasingly use projects to undertake major as well as smaller tasks. Projects help target and delimit activities, place the responsibility and transfer risk from the financing to the implementing party. As a result, evaluation has become popular as a tool to control, guide and draw lessons of experience from projects. This book is intended both as a textbook for students and a handbook for project managers. It provides hands-on, easy-to-comprehend lessons about evaluation as a phenomenon, its design, preparation and methodology, as well as the project as a management tool.

Evaluating Programs to Increase Student Achievement

Evaluating Programs to Increase Student Achievement
Author: Martin H. Jason
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008-03-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452211426

This updated edition on evaluating the effectiveness of school programs provides an expanded needs-assessment section, additional methods for data analysis, and tools for communicating program results.

Regional Perspectives on Policy Evaluation

Regional Perspectives on Policy Evaluation
Author: Marco Percoco
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319095196

The evaluation of public policies is of paramount importance for modern policy making, especially in a period of severe budget constraints. The literature has proposed several methods to deal with the issue of causality and counterfactual evaluation in a variety of contexts, with an increasing attention to the local dimension. The book aims to present the state-of-the-art of evaluation techniques with a special focus on the consideration of geographical and spatial effects into existing methodologies (such as propensity score matching, regression discontinuity, difference-in-difference). Furthermore, the volume highlights how strict the identification conditions for models with spatial effects are and proposes instrumental variables as a technique able to circumvent the issue. Finally, some insights into the emerging literature on ex ante evaluation are offered with respect to EU Cohesion Policy.