Print Email Facebook Twitter Relating cost-benefit analysis results with transport project decisions in the Netherlands Title Relating cost-benefit analysis results with transport project decisions in the Netherlands Author Annema, J.A. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Frenken, Koen (Universiteit Utrecht) Koopmans, Carl (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; SEO Economic Research) Kroesen, M. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Date 2017 Abstract This paper relates the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) results of transportation policy proposals in the Netherlands with the decision to implement or abandon the proposal. The aim of this study is to explore the relation between the CBA results and decision-making. Multinomial logit regression models and Latent Class Analysis are used in this paper as the statistical tools to identify associations between CBA results and decisions and to reveal unobservable classes underlying the CBA results and the decisions for projects. Analysis was carried out on 106 Netherlands CBA reports (2000–2012) containing 454 observations. Each observation is a CBA result of a transport project variant. In line with most of the international literature, this study cannot find a significant association between Net Present Values (NPVs) and the variants chosen in political decisions (after controlling for other relevant variables). However, a positive NPV does keep variants ‘pending’, preventing a negative decision. Subject Cost-benefit analysisDecision-makingTransportation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e0733e54-b646-43c8-a2bf-8a30959dba22 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s12076-016-0175-5 ISSN 1864-4031 Source Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 10 (1), 109-127 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 J.A. Annema, Koen Frenken, Carl Koopmans, M. Kroesen Files PDF 10.1007_s12076_016_0175_5.pdf 517.8 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e0733e54-b646-43c8-a2bf-8a30959dba22/datastream/OBJ/view