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Beyond the 30% rule: rethinking agglomeration benefits in an international context

September 7, 2026 jameslaird Leave a comment

By James Laird and Daniel Johnson Conference paper presented at European Transport Conference, Porto, 9-11 September 2026 Short abstract Agglomeration…

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Value of Travel Time Savings Scoping Study

August 18, 2026 jameslaird

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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