Presentationen hålls i form av ett granskningsseminarium. Opponent är Roger Pyddoke, VTI.

Plats

Stockholm, VTI:s kontor, Teknikringen 10

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Rapporten "Public Transport Authorities' use of Cost-Benefit Analysis in practice" är skriven på engelska men seminariet hålls på svenska.

Rapportens abstract

Public transport services in Sweden are in 2016 worth over 40,000 million SEK annually, and the planning carried out mostly by the Public Transport Authorities (PTA). Given the national goals for transport and infrastructure, economic efficiency is essential also in public transport operations. In 2003, (Ljungberg, 2007) sought to answer to which extent PTAs use Cost-Benefit Analyses (CBA), a methodology to assess economic efficiency, in their planning of operations and infrastructure. It was found that CBA was used to a very small extent. This paper tries to answer the same question, but for year 2016. The aim is, similar to (Ljungberg, 2007), see to what extent PTAs are using CBA today, but also to investigate whether there have been any changes compared to the previous study.

A survey was sent to all Swedish PTAs with questions regarding current, previous, and projected future use of CBA. Questions about knowledge of reference materials, and why the organization use (or do not use) CBA was asked. The main results are that most CBAs are not using CBA as decision support. For those who does, the method is used mostly for investments in payment systems and major line or traffic changes. When comparing the usage of CBA across different investment categories, the only statistically significant change from the 2003-study is an increased usage when changing fare structure. The PTAs seem not regard lack of economic resources a reason for not using CBA. Rather, lack of knowledge and more reliance on other types of decision support are the reasons.