The econometrics of major transport infrastructures

Major transport infrastructures are increasingly in the news as both the engineering and financing possibilities come together.

However, these projects have also demonstrated the inadequacy of most existing approaches to forecasting their impacts and their overall evaluation.

This collection of papers from a conference organised by the Applied Econometric Association represents a state of the art look at issues of forecasting traffic, developing pricing strategies and estimating the impacts in a set of papers by leading authorities from Europe, North America and Japan.