Economical Evaluation of Transportation Projects
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The official GTU curriculum for Economical Evaluation of Transportation Projects (subject code ME02069081) as prescribed for CEE · Semester 2 divides the course into 8 units, covering 64 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME02069081)Unit 1 Introductions–Need and purposes of Economic Evaluation; Project
- Economic cost
- Financial cost
- Economic Analysis
- Financial Analysis
- Basic concepts of economic analysis
- Principles of economic evaluation
- Welfare economics
- Social costs
- Discount rate
- Interest rate
- Present worth
- Future worth
- Rate of return
- Repo rate
- Fiscal Policy
- Cash flow in, Cash flow out, Concept of Time value of money
- Shadow pricing
- Value of Travel time Savings
- Economic concept of evaluation of travel time savings
- Vehicle operating costs
- Components of VOC, Road User Cost
- Accident costs
- Methodologies for economic evaluation of an accident
Unit 2 Demand, Supply and Utility
- Factors affecting supply and demand
- Teaching Scheme (in Hours) Total Credits L+T+ (PR/2) Assessment Pattern and Marks Total Marks L T PR C Theory Tutorial / Practical ESE (E) PA / CA (M) PA/CA (I) ESE (V) 3 0 2 4 70 30 20 30 150 Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering) Subject Code: ME02069081 Subject Name: Economical Evaluation of Transportation Projects Laws of Demand & supply
- Demand and supply curves
- Utility analysis
- Ordinal analysis
- Cardinal analysis
- Income effect
- Price effect
- Elasticity of supply
- Elasticity of demand
Unit 4 Project Appraisal – Total Cost, Principles of analysis, Do-nothing
- Stages of economic evaluation
- Factors affecting Road Users Cost
- Project appraisal
- Benefits from highway projects
- Time and Distance related congestion effects on VOC
- Types of traffic receiving benefits due to highway projects
Unit 5 Economic Evaluation–Different Methods-Net Present Value (NPV),
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Benefit by Cost Ratio (B/C)
- Advantages and limitations of methods
- Sensitivity analysis
- Marginal and Incremental Analysis
- Highway Maintenance Cost
- Vehicle Maintenance Cost
- Labour cost
- Crew cost
- Types of traffic receiving benefits
- Traffic System Evaluation
- Benefits from low volume roads
- Benefits of Rail/Road Over Bridge (ROB)
Unit 6 Financing Mechanism-Taxes, Tolls, Road pricing, Private Financing,
- Public financing
- Modes of highway implementation
- highway finance and taxation Financing transportation projects-PPP, HAM, TOT, EPC, BOT, BOOT
Unit 7 Transport Cost–Types, Factors, Cost analysis for Mass Transit
- Marginal cost
- Incremental analysis
- Wholesale Price Index (WPI)
- National Policy
Unit 8 Economic analysis of transportation projects ownership and financing
- of transport
- economic function of transportation road user and transportation costs
- Basic concepts
- Transportation related Environmental Impacts- Vehicular Impacts–Safety and Capacity Impacts- Roadway Impacts–Construction Impacts
- Environmental Impact Assessment-Environmental Impact Statement
- Environment Audit
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