To achieve sustainability in the area of transport we need to view the decision-making process as a whole and consider all the most important socio-economic and environmental aspects involved. Improvements in transport infrastructures have a positive impact on regional development and significant repercussions on the economy, as well as affecting a large number of ecological processes. This art...

The traditional cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for transport appraisal has two key weaknesses. Firstly, by assuming static prices in markets external to transport, externalities cannot be considered other than in an ad-hoc, case-by-case manner. This approach is only valid under restrictive assumptions regarding perfect competition and the reflection of marginal costs in prices, which may not be ap...

The present paper analyses the Multi‐level Governance issue for large transport infrastructures relevant at European level. The focus is posed on the activities occurring before the infrastructure implementation, which are identified as the decision making‐process. This is commonly a long and complex procedure involving a variety of stakeholders at different levels and a variety of correspondin...

In the most general case, assessment of risks investment projects is carried out on basis a single standard methodological approach, sufficiently adapted to large number industry structures. However, new implemented in order expand and radically modify infrastructure railway transport Russian Federation require clarification principles provisions existing approaches for their reasonable impleme...

In many conflicts, the consequences of engineering projects are among the problems at issue, and engineers are unavoidably parties to the problems. Engineers need to raise their awareness of the potential effects of their projects, especially in situations of serious social and political contention, and to explore alternative designs or engineering solutions, and methods of implementation, that...