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Value of Travel Time Savings Scoping Study

August 18, 2026 jameslaird Leave a comment

This study for the Department for Transport scopes out the theoretical and practical considerations regarding valuing travel time changes in…

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Spatial aggregation error and agglomeration benefits from transport improvements

August 17, 2023 gd_support

Aggregating data to other spatial resolutions can result in spatial aggregation errors, which can affect the data and subsequent analyses.…

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Assessing induced road traffic demand in New Zealand

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In an age of concern about climate change it is important to understand the induced traffic to be expected following…

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Agglomeration and transport appraisal: new developments and research directions

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James in collaboration with Eivind Tveter developed a thinkpiece on agglomeration and transport appraisal.  The thinkpiece identifies the areas where…

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Peer Review of High Speed 2 Wider Economic Impact Assessment with a S-CGE model

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In collaboration with Adolf Stroombergen (Infometrics, Wellington, NZ) James peer reviewed the development of and application of an S-CGE model…

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Agglomeration under Covid (DfT, 2021)

January 7, 2022 jameslaird

This review considers how one of the side effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, that of homeworking, may impact on the…

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The GDP effects of transport investments: the macro-economic approach

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The gross domestic product (GDP) impact of transport investment has a strong resonance with policy. Investment in transport infrastructure is…

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Cost benefit analysis of interrelated and interdependent transport projects (New Zealand Transport Agency, 2020 – 2021)

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A decision as to whether to invest in a transport project requires many pieces of information to be condensed down…

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ULTrA: Unifed Land Use and Transport Appraisal peer review (TfL, 2019- 2020)

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ULTrA is a software utility developed by DSC that permits economic appraisal of land use and transport impacts.  James was…

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Move to More/Less Productive Jobs (Department for Transport, 2019- 2020)

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Move to more or less productive jobs (M2MLPJ) is concerned with the relocation of economic activity from one region to…

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