Valuing Public Investments to Support Bicycling

Artikel

We develop a framework for assessing the net benefits of investments to promote bicycling, which explicitly accounts for internal costs of bicycling. We apply our model to eight Swiss cities using data from the Swiss national travel survey and find that increasing the level of bicycling by reducing internal costs leads to inframarginal benefits that exceed the net benefits from the additional bicycling. We further find that Swiss cyclists only partially internalize health benefits, which affects the benefits from infrastructure investments but also implies that there is scope for "soft" measures that would inform users about health benefits of bicycling.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics ; ISSN: 2235-6282 ; Volume: 150 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 297-329 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories ; Valuation of Environmental Effects ; Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise ; Transportation Economics: Government and Private Investment Analysis; Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning
• Subject: Cost-benefit analysis ; health impact assessment ; bicycle ; valuation ; internal cost ; health benefit ; VSL

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Götschi, Thomas ; Hintermann, Beat
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2014

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1007/BF03399409
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/186043
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET