Print Email Facebook Twitter Spatial effects in the ex-ante evaluation of urban underground transportation infrastructure projects Title Spatial effects in the ex-ante evaluation of urban underground transportation infrastructure projects: A study of the gap between the perceived spatial effects of Het Souterrain and the spatial effects incorporated in already conducted CBAs Author Buisman, S.P. Contributor Van Wee, B. (mentor) Mouter, N. (mentor) Annema, J.A. (mentor) Leijten, M. (mentor) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Department of Transport and Logistics Date 2017-05-15 Abstract Underground transportation infrastructure projects are a possible solution to the increasing demand for transportation, limited space and congestion in urban areas. In addition, these kinds of projects are in line with the need for improvement of the quality of the public urban space. Nowadays, when a municipality applies for funding with the national government for the construction of a transportation project a Cost-Benefit analysis (CBA) has to be conducted by an independent party (Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, 2012). In the CBA the costs and benefits of the project on the society are balanced and therefore provides the CBA decision-makers with important policy information; whether the benefits outweigh the costs of the project compared to the state of affairs in which no project is build- also called the reference case (van Wee & Rietveld, 2014). The use of the CBA in the decision-making process leads to a better decision-making process (Mouter, Annema, & van Wee, 2013), but it is unclear which exact role a CBA plays in the decision-making process, because politicians also have other reasons than the results of a CBA for reaching a go/no-go decision (Rienstra, 2008; Eijgenraam, Koopmans, Tang, & Verster, 2000; Annema, 2014; Mackie, 2010). A limitation of the CBA is that not all (welfare) effects can be taken (properly) into account in a CBA (Mouter, Annema, & van Wee, 2015). CBAs are often incomplete because project effects are uncertain, unknown or difficult to monetize (Mouter, Annema, & van Wee, 2013). Under these conditions, political decisions based on results of a CBA study are based on incomplete policy information. Subject In-depth Single Case StudySpatial EffectsCost-Benefit AnalysisUnderground Transportation InfrastructureUrban Areas To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9ce59844-80a9-4856-808b-4e70cd43b080 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2017 S.P. Buisman Files PDF Master_Thesis_report_Seba ... uisman.pdf 1.98 MB PDF Scientific_paper_Sebastia ... uisman.PDF 1.12 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9ce59844-80a9-4856-808b-4e70cd43b080/datastream/OBJ2/view