Dear colleagues
Details of two seminars on transport appraisal that may be of interest. The first is on June 1st.
Best wishes
Tom
Tom Cohen PhD │ Deputy Director │ UCL Transport Institute
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Rethinking Transport Appraisal Seminar Series 2015
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Critically Examining the Current Approaches to Transport Appraisal
Chair: Dr Robin Hickman (The Bartlett School of Planning)
Speakers:
• Dr Shepley Orr (UCL Centre for Transport Studies): Introducing Transport Appraisal
• Professor Bert van Wee (Delft University of Technology): Transport, Ethics and the Appraisal of Transport Projects
• Professor Petter Naess (Norwegian University of Life Sciences): Inaccurate and Biased: Cost-Benefit Analyses of Transport Infrastructure Projects
• Dr Astrid Gühnemann (ITS Leeds): Comparative European Practice - Lessons from Germany
JUNE 1, 2015 17:00 - 19:00
Roberts Lecture Theatre 421
Roberts Building, UCL
Torrington Place
London WC1E 7JE
To register for this event on Eventbrite - http://rethinkingtransportappraisal1.eventbrite.co.uk/
Developing the Approaches to Transport Appraisal
Chair: Professor Peter Jones (UCL Centre for Transport Studies)
Speakers:
• Professor David Metz (UCL Centre for Transport Studies): The Myth of Travel Time Savings
• Professor Steen Leleur (Technical University of Denmark): MCDA for Use in Transport Decision-Making: Combining CBA and MCA
• Professor Cathy Macharis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Multi-Actor Approaches to MCA
JULY 9, 2015 17:00 - 19:00
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Wilkins Building, UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
To register for this event on Eventbrite - https://rethinkingtransportappraisal2.eventbrite.co.uk/
ABOUT
The process of transport investment appraisal and decision-making plays a critical part in prioritising investment in transport planning, and has been progressively developed and enhanced over the last 50 years in the UK, mainland Europe and North America. The UK Department for Transport’s WebTAG framework (DfT, 2014) now incorporates very detailed appraisal guidance, and is seen by some commentators as the ‘best and most thorough and transparent’ system of appraisal in the world.
However, this approach to project appraisal, largely based on cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and a weak application of multi-criteria analysis (MCA), has also attracted a growing volume of criticism, developing from the 1970s onwards, and gaining additional impetus in the last five years – with problems experienced in the quantification of impacts, in discounting, and with a poor representation of environmental and distributional issues. The experience of the appraisal process on major public transport infrastructure projects, such as High Speed 2, has illuminated the issues and the problematic nature of the current process. For many, the use of CBA is overplayed, and the practice has been taken too far – into areas of decision making that are too complex for simplistic economic analysis.
The Rethinking Transport Appraisal seminar series tackles these issues, inviting national and international experts to UCL to debate the problems and likely solutions.
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This seminar series will help to inform the work of UCL, as a lead partner in the EU INTERREG IVB SINTROPHER project which is considering the role of the transport appraisal process in funding public transport infrastructure in ‘peripheral’ urban areas.
The seminar series is financially supported by UCL Public Policy and UCL: Grand Challenges Sustainable Cities.
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