External Costs of Transport and Internalisation Methodology
Source
EC DG TREN
Date
February 2008
Description
Determination of unit cost values for each external cost category (congestion, accidents, air pollution, noise, climate change and other) to internalise external effects in an economic CBA, including recommendations for value transfer procedures to specific countries and projects (336pp).
Source
IWW-Infras
Date
October 2004
Description
Report on external effects of transport (road, rail, airways, waterways) and how to internalise those in a CBA. Important reference material (168pp).
Remarks
Contribution IWW-Infras results to Handbook on Estimation of External Costs in the Transport Sector (see this list).
Source
Centre for the Study of Law and Economics
Date
December 2007
Description
Study report on internalisation principles, including description of several case studies.
Remarks
Link above offers several download locations.
Source
World Bank (Transport Notes)
Date
January 2005
Description
Categorisation and suggested methodologies for the valuation of accident related cost by type of mode (9pp).
Source
DG TREN (Transport Research Knowledge Centre)
Date
October 2008
Description
Brief overview of the scope of the theme and summary of main policy developments at EU level. The second part contains a synthesis of the main findings and policy implications (48pp).
Source
TU Delft
Date
September 2008
Description
Review of the guidelines for monetising noise effects in different European counbtries, as assessed by performing a CBA, monetising as many effects as possible (11pp).
Source
University of Groningen - NL
Date
2004
Description
Social cost-benefit analysis as a decision-making tool, taking infrastructure investment as an example (21pp).
Internalising environmental effects___________________________© Frumbert
Source
World Bank
Date
April 2008
Description
Report on how social benefits might be included in road appraisal, using a Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) to define how different groups (in Uganda) would comparatively assess how the different social costs and benefits of road projects compare with economic and environmental costs and benefits (81pp).
Source
University of Stuttgart (Co-ordination)
Date
February 2006
Description
Main HEATCO report, of which several chapters (mainly 5 and 6) deal with external effects (accidents and environmental costs). Annexes to the report can be downloaded here.
Title
Source
ECMT
Date
1997
Description
List of terminology related to social costs of transport (5pp).
Source
OECD-ECMT
Date
2001
Description
Report describing various methods of evaluating road safety measures in four different European countries (NL, S, DL, UK) including data on applied cost levels (175pp).
Remarks
Although not very recent, the document may still provide useful background information on the internalisation of safety in road project evaluation.
Source
VIDV (Germany)
Date
September 2005
Description
Presentation describing potential cost saving effects of additional safety measures for (German) motorways (9 sheets).