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Valuation and Appraisal of Accessibility in Rail (VAAR): an appraisal framework for improvements in accessibility for all (COF-ECO-05)

Status of Publication: Published/Completed
Date produced: 2020
Commissioned/Funded by: Rail Safety and Standards Board
Authoring organisation/Author affiliation: Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Type of Resource: Research
Impairment area(s): Pan-impairment
Transport mode(s): Train
Journey stage: Unspecified
Region: United Kingdom (all countries)

Document summary

The framework aims to enable and underpin the development of appraisal guidelines that assist the selection and justification of accessibility investments.In summary, the work shows that it should be feasible to ‘move’ some accessibility impacts from the non-monetisable category of impacts to the monetisable category, and the report considers how this can be done consistently without incurring into double counting, and provide various sets of options and recommendations for the main aspects of appraisal in practice.

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