Incorporating equity considerations in transport infrastructure evaluation: Current practice and a proposed methodology

Thomopoulos, Nikolas; Grant-Muller, Susan; Tight, Miles

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2009.06.013

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“…According to Bristow and Nellthorp (2000) and Thomopoulos et al (2009), there have been attempts to bring CBA and MCA, which can usually better account for equity issue, together in a single evaluation framework, but more research is needed in this field, certainly regarding the ability of CBA to assess the equity impacts of transport policies and projects.…”

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“…According to Thomopoulos et al (2009), equity considerations are difficult to evaluate by the conventional CBA approach, as it does not differentiate among different beneficiaries of a project. To accommodate income distributional factors, Brent (1996) argues that CBA has to distinguish the group that receives the benefits from the group that incurs the costs.…”

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“…Even when it is at the core of the appraisal, the utilitarian approach at the base of this evaluation disables a proper consideration of equity. CBA is the most widely used method for the evaluation of transport projects (Browne & Ryan, 2011;Martens, 2011;Thomopoulos, Grant-Muller, & Tight, 2009;van Wee, 2011). In transportation, CBA is conducted from a societal point of view, so in this discussion, CBA really refers to social cost-benefit analysis, and it basically quantifies all costs and benefits related to a given project and express them in monetary terms.…”

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“…Another common criticism of CBA is the time horizon used in project assessment, which is again an issue for cross border projects (Wiegmans 2008). Further discussion on the limitations of CBA can be found in Mackie (2010), Thomopoulos et al (2009), van Wee and Geurs (2011) or Vickerman (2007. Rietveld (2003) and Khisty (1996) both seek to improve the assessment of equity impacts using less conventional CBA methods.…”

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Incorporating equity as part of the wider impacts in transport infrastructure assessment: an application of the SUMINI approach

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The state of the art in appraisal of transport infrastructure (particularly for developed countries) is moving towards inclusivity of a set of wider impacts than has traditionally been the case. In appraisal frameworks generally Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) features as either an alternative to, or complementary with, Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) particularly when assessing a wider set of distributional and other impacts. In that respect it goes some way towards addressing an identified weakness in conventional CBA. This paper proposes a new method to incorporate the wider impacts into the appraisal framework (SUMINI) based upon a composite indicator and MCA. The method is illustrated for a particular example of the wider set of impacts, i.e. equity, through the ex-post assessment of two large EU transport infrastructure (TEN-T) case studies. The results suggest that SUMINI assesses equity impacts well and the case studies highlight the flexibility of the approach in reflecting different policy or project objectives. The research concludes that this method should not be viewed as being in competition with traditional CBA, but that it could be an easily adopted and complementary approach. The value in the research is in providing a new and significant methodological advance to the historically difficult question of how to evaluate equity and other wider impacts. The research is of strong international significance due to the publication of the TEN-Ts review by the European Commission, as well as the transnational nature of large scale interurban transport schemes, the involvement of national and transnational stakeholder groups in the approval and funding of those schemes, the large numbers of population potentially subject to equity and other wider impacts and the degree of variation in the regional objectives and priorities for transport decision makers.

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“…Socially equitable transportation investigates the fairness in the distribution of transport resources among different socio-economic groups and relevant policies [2,3]. Transit equity with regard to investments covers transport infrastructures [4,5] and financial subsidies [6]. Transit equity in terms of costs deals with environmental justice [7], tolls and congestion pricing [8], and transit prices as well as fare structures [9].…”

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Abstract:Bus fare equity has attracted significant attention in China in the past few years. Compared with developed countries, China's intelligent transportation systems are in their infancy, with immature bus fare policies being used in many public transit systems. The methods used for evaluating public transit fare equity in developed countries compare different fare policies based on rich data and cannot be directly applied in developing countries like China. In this paper, we present a method that uses IC card data, bus-mounted GPS data, and relevant statistical yearbook data to evaluate the equity of flat bus fare. The method ranks the factors that influence the impacts of bus fare on social equity for different passenger groups and indicates that trip distance and passenger boarding time are the two primary factors for bus fare equity from a resource allocation perspective. Finally, we present a case study that evaluates the flat fare policy for route 204 in Suzhou using the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method is feasible.

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Incorporating equity considerations in transport infrastructure evaluation: Current practice and a proposed methodology

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