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Report of the Thirty-Sixth Round Table on Transport Economics held in Paris on 29th and 30th November, 1976 on the following topic : cost benefirt analysis

By Frost , Michael John , Michael J.; Frost

Book information

Publisher
ECMT / OECD
Year
1977
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1465479 bytes)
Series
ECMT round tables no. 36.
Pages
25\112
Time added
2017-11-09 03:41:53
Transportation -- Cost effectiveness -- Congresses

Description

This Round Table first examines the potential benefits that cost-benefit analysis might achieve and then looks at why, in fact, they are not obtained. Introductory report -- Cost-Benfit Analysis / by Michael J. Frost, United Kingdom -- Introduction -- Resolution of conflict -- Concentration of political discussion on the facts -- Limiting analysis to reasonable proportions -- The theoretical problem -- Technical limitations -- Definition of alternatives -- Analysis of systems -- Quantification of intangibles -- The political process -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Technical description of cost-benefit analysis -- Bibliography -- Technical annex -- Some examples of cost-benefit and multi-criteria analysis -- Summary of the discussion -- List of participants.

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