Print Email Facebook Twitter Appraisal of freight projects and policies Title Appraisal of freight projects and policies Author Tavasszy, Lorant (TU Delft Transport and Planning; TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Reis, Vasco (Lisbon Technical University) Contributor Mouter, Niek (editor) Date 2021 Abstract Freight transport systems are facing ever-growing demand and increasingly stringent requirements. Governments are pressured to develop new policies and fund new projects that drive forward the freight transport systems. We provide an overview of typical evaluation approaches used for freight transport policies and projects, from the public policy perspective. We make a simple introduction to the freight transport system, including the most representative agents and components. We introduce a basic framework, briefly reviewing some key literature on the topic and describe the salient features of the state of freight transport appraisal practice today. We also introduce the main freight transport modeling approaches that support project appraisal. We distinguish three types of freight projects according to their geographical scope—global, national and local level—as the appraisal techniques differ. Cost-Benefit Analysis is the prevalent technique in global level projects and very common in national level projects. Multicriteria Analysis type approaches dominate at the local level. Finally, we identify research challenges related to appraisal of freight transport projects and policies. Subject Cost-benefit analysisFreight transportFreight transport modelsMulti-criteria analysisProject appraisal To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1bddc4bd-7630-4ed2-a87e-270fb85c2e6b DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2021.01.002 Publisher Elsevier Embargo date 2021-09-26 ISBN 9780323855594 Source Advances in Transport Policy and Planning, 7 Series Advances in Transport Policy and Planning, 2543-0009, 7 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2021 Lorant Tavasszy, Vasco Reis Files PDF 1_s2.0_S2543000921000020_main.pdf 945.99 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1bddc4bd-7630-4ed2-a87e-270fb85c2e6b/datastream/OBJ/view