Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects

This paper has two objectives: (1) to introduce a new approach to gaining widespread support for comprehensive road pricing; and (2) to develop a detailed social welfare analysis for road pricing schemes. We first describe a new approach to garnering support for system-wide road pricing, which we re...

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Autores: Rouhani, Omid M., Geddes, R. Richard, Gao, H. Oliver, Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
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Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Benestar social
Associacions
Infraestructures (Transport)
Tarifes
Public welfare
Associations
Transportation buildings
Rates
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spelling Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projectsRouhani, Omid M.Geddes, R. RichardGao, H. OliverBel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-Benestar socialAssociacionsInfraestructures (Transport)TarifesPublic welfareAssociationsTransportation buildingsRatesThis paper has two objectives: (1) to introduce a new approach to gaining widespread support for comprehensive road pricing; and (2) to develop a detailed social welfare analysis for road pricing schemes. We first describe a new approach to garnering support for system-wide road pricing, which we refer to as an investment public-private partnership, or IP3. This approach returns a significant portion of the economic value created by road pricing back to its citizen-owners. Next, we present a social welfare framework that estimates the benefits and costs of using the IP3 approach on an urban transportation network. Policy makers typically evaluate public-private partnership (P3) projects using Value for Money (VfM) analysis. However, a P3 project's impact on overall social welfare provides a more comprehensive evaluation criterion. Apart from several theoretical studies, a detailed social welfare analysis that includes all major P3 project stakeholders is lacking. Using Fresno City's transportation system as our case study, we show that system-optimal tolling scenarios favor average users, but that government¿and consequently taxpayers¿would pay for costly tolling systems. In contrast, unlimited profit-maximizing tolls raise substantial profits for government, for the infrastructure's citizen-owners, and for the private sector, but the average user is worse off. From a social welfare perspective, one should search for a Pareto-improvement under which all major stakeholders are better off. Our estimates indicate that a mixed private and public tolling scheme offers such an improvement. A mixed scheme results in the highest social welfare among all scenarios unless the weight placed on motorists' (i.e., transportation users') welfare is very low or the weight placed on residents' welfare is very high relative to the weight of other stakeholders.Elsevier Ltd2016201920162016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion18 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/102536Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2015.11.003Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2016, vol. 88, p. 86-103http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2015.11.003cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier Ltd, 2016http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/1025362026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects
title Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects
spellingShingle Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects
Rouhani, Omid M.
Benestar social
Associacions
Infraestructures (Transport)
Tarifes
Public welfare
Associations
Transportation buildings
Rates
title_short Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects
title_full Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects
title_fullStr Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects
title_full_unstemmed Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects
title_sort Social welfare analysis of investment public-private partnership approaches for tansportation projects
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rouhani, Omid M.
Geddes, R. Richard
Gao, H. Oliver
Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-
author Rouhani, Omid M.
author_facet Rouhani, Omid M.
Geddes, R. Richard
Gao, H. Oliver
Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-
author_role author
author2 Geddes, R. Richard
Gao, H. Oliver
Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Benestar social
Associacions
Infraestructures (Transport)
Tarifes
Public welfare
Associations
Transportation buildings
Rates
topic Benestar social
Associacions
Infraestructures (Transport)
Tarifes
Public welfare
Associations
Transportation buildings
Rates
description This paper has two objectives: (1) to introduce a new approach to gaining widespread support for comprehensive road pricing; and (2) to develop a detailed social welfare analysis for road pricing schemes. We first describe a new approach to garnering support for system-wide road pricing, which we refer to as an investment public-private partnership, or IP3. This approach returns a significant portion of the economic value created by road pricing back to its citizen-owners. Next, we present a social welfare framework that estimates the benefits and costs of using the IP3 approach on an urban transportation network. Policy makers typically evaluate public-private partnership (P3) projects using Value for Money (VfM) analysis. However, a P3 project's impact on overall social welfare provides a more comprehensive evaluation criterion. Apart from several theoretical studies, a detailed social welfare analysis that includes all major P3 project stakeholders is lacking. Using Fresno City's transportation system as our case study, we show that system-optimal tolling scenarios favor average users, but that government¿and consequently taxpayers¿would pay for costly tolling systems. In contrast, unlimited profit-maximizing tolls raise substantial profits for government, for the infrastructure's citizen-owners, and for the private sector, but the average user is worse off. From a social welfare perspective, one should search for a Pareto-improvement under which all major stakeholders are better off. Our estimates indicate that a mixed private and public tolling scheme offers such an improvement. A mixed scheme results in the highest social welfare among all scenarios unless the weight placed on motorists' (i.e., transportation users') welfare is very low or the weight placed on residents' welfare is very high relative to the weight of other stakeholders.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2015.11.003
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