Research background: The problem of evaluating the results of innovative transport technologies is extremely important for their implementation and realization. The assessment of possible benefits of innovative transport projects is complicated by a number of circumstances. These include a wide range of arising effects in various forms and the long life cycle of the project, which increases the difficulty of reliably measuring the various costs and results. Thus, it can be argued that outdated approaches and methods for assessing the new transport products hinder the development of innovations. Purpose of the article: to identify directions for assessing the travel time value in the analysis of the transportation projects economic efficiency. Methods: The study was conducted by means of scientific methods such as the comparative analysis, system method, generalization and abstraction. Also, we use the results of expert assessments based on depth-in interviews. Findings & Value added: The article substantiates the necessity of taking into account the incremental benefits for passengers from travel time reduction as the most important aspect of transport projects implementation, ensuring the formation of the whole range of external social and economic effects; The multi-factor dependence of the travel time value for a passenger, which is characterised by its heterogeneity during a journey, has been substantiated. The necessity of assessing changes of travel time values in the general transport costs of passengers has been substantiated, taking into account the several factors that lead to different time values. A visual model of the socio-economic effects formation of the HSR project, caused by changes in the passengers’ total transport costs and increased transport accessibility of the region, is proposed.

Research background: Swedish economist S.B. Linder considered time as the rarest resource, for the preservation of which people are willing to pay more and more. The problem of monetized evaluation of the benefits of reducing travel time has been relevant for the transport economy since the 1960s. The article is devoted to the study of the specifics of the time resource in modern socioeconomic systems and the analysis of approaches for assessing the benefits of changing time costs. Purpose of the article: To make a retrospective analysis of the phenomenon of time in economics, to investigate the evolution of methodological approaches to the assessment of time resources, to uncover contradictions between the fundamental ideas about the distribution of time resources and methods for assessing the benefits of changes in time costs. Methods: The methods of systematic, retrospective and comparative analysis are used in the paper. Findings & Value added: The conclusions obtained in the course of the study allow us to expand and concretize the methodology of economic assessment of transport projects. There are identified and systematized factors that determine the need for differentiated accounting of changes in the value of reducing travel time for passengers, which ultimately determines the demand for transport services.

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Background: One of the current trends of modern transport systems development process is innovative technologies application aimed to rational use of resources, which is confirmed by the development of high-speed rail supposing to reduce travel time costs. The world practice of high-speed railway projects implementation verifies variety of transport availability influences on social and economic sphere that allows to consider HSR not only as the transport innovation defining competitiveness of railway transport, but also as the economic stimulation tool for territory development. Aim: to substantiate the formation mechanism of external effects from high-speed rail transport projects implementation. Methods: the study was conducted by means of scientific methods such as the systematic method, comparative analysis, analogy, generalization and abstraction, synthesis, induction. Results: the formation mechanism of external effects from the transport accessibility improving caused by HSR projects implementation was specified, which allows considering HSR projects as a tool for economic development. The dual nature of the relationship between the high-speed rail efficiency, which ensure the external effects formation, and integration transport processes that affect transport accessibility was revealed.