Cars, Congestion and Costs: A New Approach to Evaluating Government Infrastructure Investment

Dachis, Benjamin

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“…Further, despite the appearance that the public sector can borrow at a lower interest rate than the private sector, private investment in infrastructure puts less risk on taxpayers and may end up being a better bargain than public dollars (Boyer et al 2013). Private financing and construction of infrastructure tends to create market disciplines that produce greater efficiency (Dachis 2013).…”

Section: Restoring Investment Growth In Central Canada and The Rest Omentioning

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“…Continued Ontario and Quebec -has been a common theme in recent public discussion (seeCross 2014, andDachis and Robson 2013). Estimated and forecast investment per worker in Ontario and Quebec in 2013 and 2014 is at its lowest levels in the last 10 years.…”

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“…SeeGoldfarb (2004, 2006);Goldfarb and Robson (2005);Banerjee andRobson (2007, 2008); andBusby and Robson (2009, 2010; andDachis and Robson (2012, 2013).…”

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Capital Needed: Canada Needs More Robust Business Investment

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Chesterley

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…This graph represents what occurs when supply is increased. At "supply1", the consumer 15 surplus is the area of the upper triangle. When the supply is increased to the level shown as "supply2" an additional consumer surplus is realized and would-be travellers receive more benefit from trips they make, as well as choose to make more trips.…”

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“…Firstly, transit vehicles, whether standard bus, articulated bus, light rail, or heavy rail, are all able to transport significantly more commuters, while consuming a smaller quantity of road space [15]. Secondly, it is assumed that the introduction of transit 19 service will not affect the network equilibrium in any meaningful way; that the number of trips taken per person remains constant throughout the analysis.…”

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A Model for Calculating Negative Externalities Experienced as a Result of Marginal Increases In Public Transit and Ridesharing Services on Arterial and Collector Road Segments

Schagen¹

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Increased transit service is widely regarded as an effective solution to traffic congestion, particularly because transit vehicles have larger capacity. Surface transit, however, operates in a different service paradigm, and may preclude the use of space by passenger cars or impose delay on traffic.By adapting existing delay and queuing models, a model was developed to quantify negative externalities imposed on the network for various conditions found or implied on Fisher Avenue in Ottawa and Taunton Road in Oshawa, and evaluated for realism using VISSIM and AIMSUN. This model may support existing methods for evaluating marginal changes in transit service to maximize traveller throughput. The model extends to autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing services, and performance models.The model shows that as the proportion of transit vehicles increases, the imposed delay may reduce arterial throughput, reducing road performance and traveller benefit, which can indicate conditions better served by grade-separated transit.ii

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Ontario's infrastructure boom: a socioecological fix for air pollution, congestion, jobs, and profits

Nugent

2015

Environ Plan A

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Infrastructure projects provide a spatial fix by increasing the scale and rate of capital accumulation, and because infrastructure projects themselves absorb massive amounts of productive and finance capital. I seek to explain the timing, character, and consequences of a Can $85 billion infrastructure boom in Canada's largest province, Ontario, between 2003 until 2013. I focus on the expansion and privatization of environmentally oriented infrastructure in Ontario via three policies: the conversion of public coal power plants to private natural gas and nuclear facilities; the Green Energy Act (a renewable energy feed-in tariffs programme); and The Big Move (a Can $50 billion dollar rapid transit plan using a public–private partnership model). I employ a Polanyian– O'Connor approach to emphasize the role of labour, environmental groups, and other social movement groups in bringing these investments about. I argue that infrastructure investments are not only a spatial fix aimed at finding capital a safe long-term investment and addressing class struggles around job creation. In Ontario these infrastructure investments have also provided the state with a broader socioecological fix for the economic and political contradictions stemming from air pollution and congestion. Social movements have pressured the government to address what James O'Connor refers to as the underproduction of the conditions of production: that is, degraded human health and quality of life; a deteriorating environment; and inadequate public infrastructure. Throughout the paper I emphasize how the socioecological fix in Ontario is being accomplished by advancing the neoliberal governance of public infrastructure. I point to how these neoliberal socioecological fixes are simply displacing socioecological crises to new spatial and temporal scales.

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Cars, Congestion and Costs: A New Approach to Evaluating Government Infrastructure Investment

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Capital Needed: Canada Needs More Robust Business Investment

Capital Needed: Canada Needs More Robust Business Investment

A Model for Calculating Negative Externalities Experienced as a Result of Marginal Increases In Public Transit and Ridesharing Services on Arterial and Collector Road Segments

Ontario's infrastructure boom: a socioecological fix for air pollution, congestion, jobs, and profits

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