Newest Resources (January 2009)

Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis: Techniques, Estimates and Implications [Second Edition]
This fully-updated document is a comprehensive study of transportation benefits and costs, and a guidebook for applying this information for policy and planning analysis. It is unique in several important ways. It includes many impact categories that are often overlooked. It explains economic evaluation techniques and how to apply them. It provides extensive reference information, mostly available through the Internet. It provides costs values in a format designed to easily calculate costs and benefits in a particular situation.

Climate Change Emission Valuation for Transportation Economic Analysis
This paper describes climate change impacts and costs, presents methods for quantifying and monetizing (measuring in monetary units) these impacts, and summarizes published unit cost estimates.

Setting Up Superstores and Climate Change
This short paper by economist Jean-Marie Beauvais describes the results of a study indicating that shopping at large, suburban 'superstores' consumes more than four times as much transport energy as local grocery store shopping.

A Good Example of Bad Transportation Performance Evaluation
This paper discusses principles of transportation performance evaluation, and critically evaluates the recent Fraser Institue report, Transportation Performance of the Canadian Provinces.

Carbon Taxes: Tax What You Burn, Not What You Earn
This report describes carbon taxes in general and the new British Columbia carbon tax in particular. It discusses carbon tax principles, identifies potential benefits and evaluates criticisms.

Litman's Planetizen Blogs
VTPI Executive Director Todd Litman shares information and insights in blogs posted on Planetizen, a public-interest information exchange for urban planners, designs, and developers.