Ex-Post Assessment of Transport Investments and Policy Interventions

ITF Roundtable Reports present the proceedings of ITF roundtable meetings, dedicated to specific topics notably on economic and regulatory aspects of transport policies in ITF member countries. Roundtable Reports contain the reviewed versions of the discussion papers presented by international experts at the meeting and a summary of discussions with the main findings of the meeting.

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+ ITF Round Tables
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The International Transport Forum at the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation with 57 member countries. It acts as a think tank for transport policy and organises the Annual Summit of transport ministers. ITF is the only global body that covers all transport modes. The ITF is administratively integrated with the OECD, yet politically autonomous.Ex-post evaluation is important to improving the delivery of transport policy objectives. It can be used for multiple purposes at the core of which is the improvement of ex-ante assessment. A small number of jurisdictions employ ex-post evaluation systematically and leading experience is reviewed in this report.

One reason ex-post analysis is not more widely employed is a number of methodological and data challenges. Several approaches have been developed to tackle these, including advanced statistical approaches, establishment of transport observatories to retain data that would otherwise be lost and a case study approach to compare similar locations subject to different investment and policy treatments.

This report examines examples of best practice, discussing the potential of different approaches and how they can be used to complement each other.

OECDiLibrary: Books: ITF Roundtable Reports http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/transport/itf-roundtable-reports_25198785

OECD: Ex-Post Assessment of Transport Investments and Policy Interventions, February 2017 http://www.oecd.org/publications/ex-post-assessment-of-transport-investments-and-policy-interventions-9789282108154-en.htm

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