Cost Benefit Analysis

New Zealand seeks comprehensive CBA framework New report highlights how assessing the financial benefit of deploying ITS is an involved and evolving calculation Following a global search, five key action areas have emerged from the New Zealand Transport Agency's recent scoping of a more comprehensive costbenefit analysis framework for evaluating planned ITS deployments. A report commissioned from engineering consultancy Aecom New Zealand...

Amsterdam reaps the reward of digitised parking Amsterdam had taken the final step in digitising parking and parking enforcement and the move is paying dividends. It was almost a decade ago that the City of Amsterdam decided to start the evolution - or maybe even a revolution of its parking enforcement: it got rid of the paper parking permit or ticket behind the windscreen and introduced the digital parking right. It was the first step on...

Creative finance enables parking progress in LA David Crawford investigates an innovative public/private partnership. Los Angeles entered the second decade of the 21st century facing major challenges to its parking operations. With a population of 3.8 million, and its car-oriented culture still predominant, the city's parking meters were technically outdated - with most only accepting coins and many regularly out of service - resulting in a...