Combining cost-benefit and multi-criteria analysis to prioritise a national road infrastructure programme

Gühnemann, Astrid; Laird, James; Pearman, Alan

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.05.005

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“…Despite sustainability should be necessarily part of a primarily an ex ante assessment, it can also be used for other purposes. Figure 1 explores the means whereby sustainability can be used in assessment and clarifies how its role fits with the decision-making and the implementation processes of an infrastructure project (Anderson & Muench, 2013;Cundrič, Kern, & Rajkovič, 2008;Dasgupta & Tam, 2005;Gambatese & Rajendran, 2005;Gü hnemann, Laird & Pearman, 2012;Lee, Edil, Benson & Tinjum, 2011;Ugwu, Kumaraswamy, Wong, & Ng, 2006 Transport infrastructure projects are appraised in practice through a number of tools or methodological frameworks that include the concept of sustainability to a greater or lesser extent. These methods and tools encompass the traditional methodologies as well as a number of current sustainability tools.…”

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“…energy consumption, resources use, and CO 2 emissions). There are numerous textbooks and academic papers dealing with the theory and practice of this methodology -see, for example, (Gü hnemann et al (2012), Hyard (2012), Tudela, Akiki, and Cisternas (2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Composite decision support models -based on combining methodologies for economic, environmental, and social assessment -are lacking in the state of the art. Despite the fact that recent studies have tried to combine these methodologies -see Barfod et al (2011), Gü hnemann et al (2012, Sijtsma (2006) -in practice "effective implementation has proven elusive" (Gü hnemann et al, 2012). The "combined tool" should be able to take into account several criteria simultaneously -including those difficult to quantify -with a life-cycle focus.…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Transport Infrastructure Projects: A Review of Existing Tools and Methods

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Attempts to integrate sustainability in the decision-making process for transport infrastructure projects continue to gain momentum. A number of tools and methodological frameworks are available -such as rating systems, traditional decision-making techniques, checklists, and different evaluation frameworks and models. While these tools are highly valuable, some practical issues remain unsolved. There is also a need for more standardized tools to appraise the sustainability of transport projects. This paper is a presentation of a review on the current assessment tools of sustainability applied to transport infrastructure projects. The preliminary part of the paper is an explanatory and comparative analysis of the tools and methods in terms of their effectiveness to appraise sustainability. The analysis is a critical evaluation of the current state of the art to identify the limitations of existing approaches, point out new areas of research, and propose a sustainability appraisal agenda for the future.

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“…However, the COSIMA approach has later proven difficult to apply in practise due the trade-off considerations that need to be made between the CBA and MCDA parts in order to estimate the shadow prices. More recently an application with some similarities to the EUNET approach -based on including the CBA as an additional criterion in the MCDA -has been made to support the effective implementation of transport policy when prioritising national road infrastructure programmes (Gühnemann et al, 2012).…”

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A new composite decision support framework for strategic and sustainable transport appraisals

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2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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This paper concerns the development of a new decision support framework for the appraisal of transport infrastructure projects. In such appraisals there will often be a need for including both conventional transport impacts as well as criteria of a more strategic and/or sustainable character.The proposed framework is based on the use of cost-benefit analysis featuring feasibility risk assessment in combination with multi-criteria decision analysis and is supported by the concept of decision conferencing. The framework is applied for a transport related case study dealing with the complex decision problem of determining the most attractive alternative for a new fixed link between Denmark and Sweden -the so-called HH-connection. Applying the framework to the case study made it possible to address the decision problem from an economic, a strategic, and a sustainable point of view simultaneously. The outcome of the case study demonstrates the decision making framework as a valuable decision support system (DSS), and it is concluded that appraisals of transport projects can be effectively supported by the use of the DSS. Finally, perspectives of the future modelling work are given.

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“…Beria et al [58] supported this assertion by illustrating it through a decision support model that combines CBA and MCDA. Moreover, Gühnemann et al [32] presented a new approach by integrating the CBA and MCDA methodologies from the perspective of a pavement infrastructure development program.…”

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Sustainable Development Factors in Pavement Life-Cycle: Highway/Airport Review

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Sustainability has gained as much importance as management in business. Sustainable pavement development as a business practice should involve making evaluations according to the triple bottom line in the pavement life-cycle. Despite the current approaches to evaluating the social as well as economic and environmental feasibility of pavement projects (involving highway and airport infrastructure), there has recently been a lack of consensus on a methodology to guarantee sustainability upon assessment and analysis during the pavement life-cycle. As sustainability is a complex issue, this study intends to further explore sustainability and elaborate on its meaning. The second step involves a general depiction of the major sustainability appraisal tools, namely cost-benefit analysis, life-cycle cost analysis, life-cycle assessment, multi-criteria decision-making, environmental impact assessment and social life-cycle assessment, and an explanation of their cons and pros. Subsequently, the article addresses the application of an organized methodology to highlight the main factors or concepts that should be applied in sustainable pavement development and, more specifically, in sustainable pavement management. In the final step, research recommendations toward sustainability are given. This study is aimed to assist decision-makers in pavement management to plan sustainability frameworks in accordance with probable boundaries and restrictions.

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Combining cost-benefit and multi-criteria analysis to prioritise a national road infrastructure programme

Cited by 77 publications

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Sustainability Assessment of Transport Infrastructure Projects: A Review of Existing Tools and Methods

Sustainability Assessment of Transport Infrastructure Projects: A Review of Existing Tools and Methods

A new composite decision support framework for strategic and sustainable transport appraisals

Sustainable Development Factors in Pavement Life-Cycle: Highway/Airport Review

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