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Does uncertainty make cost-benefit analyses pointless?

Asplund, Disa, 1985- (författare)
Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut,Transportekonomi, TEK,The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Sweden; Örebro University School of Business, Sweden,Division of Transport Economics, The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Linköping, Sweden,Economics and statistics
Eliasson, Jonas (författare)
KTH,Transportplanering, ekonomi och teknik,Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan,KTH, Transportplanering, ekonomi och teknik, Sweden,Department of Transport Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Thureson, Disa, 1985- (författare)
Örebro universitet,Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet,Centre for Transport Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
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Stockholm : Elsevier BV, 2016
2016
Engelska.
Serie: CTS Working Paper ; 2016:8
Ingår i: Transportation Research Part A. - Stockholm : Elsevier BV. - 0965-8564 .- 1879-2375. ; 92, s. 195-205
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  • Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is widely used in public decision making on infrastructure investments. However, the demand forecasts, cost estimates, benefit valuations and effect assessments that are conducted as part of CBAs are all subject to various degrees of uncertainty. The question is to what extent CBAs, given such uncertainties, are still useful as a way to prioritize between infrastructure investments, or put differently, how robust the policy conclusions of CBA are with respect to uncertainties. Using simulations based on real data on national infrastructure plans in Sweden and Norway, we study how investment selection and total realized benefits change when decisions are based on CBA assessments subject to several different types of uncertainty.Our results indicate that realized benefits and investment selection are surprisingly insensitive to all studied types of uncertainty, even for high levels of uncertainty. The two types of uncertainty that affect results the most are uncertainties about investment cost and transport demand. Provided that decisions are based on CBA outcomes, reducing uncertainty is still worthwhile, however, because of the huge sums at stake. Even moderate reductions of uncertainties about unit values, investment costs, future demand and project effects may increase the realized benefits infrastructure investment plans by tens or hundreds of million euros. We conclude that, despite the many types of uncertainties, CBA is able to fairly consistently separate the wheat from the chaff and hence contribute to substantially improved infrastructure decisions.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Samhällsbyggnadsteknik -- Transportteknik och logistik (hsv//swe)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Civil Engineering -- Transport Systems and Logistics (hsv//eng)
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Samhällsbyggnadsteknik (hsv//swe)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Civil Engineering (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Cost benefit analysis
Priority (gen)
Investment
Transport infrastructure
Simulation
Sensitivity
Calculation
02 Road: Economics
02 Road: Economics
Economics
Qa Economics and finance

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