National Railway Accessibility Strategy - Economics Benefits Framework

Start date: 1 January 2023
End date: 1 October 2023
Funder: RSSB
Value: £40,000
Partners and collaborators: Network Rail and Department for Transport
Primary investigator: Dr Manuel Ojeda Cabral
Co-investigators: Dr Chiara Calastri, Professor Richard Batley, Professor Thijs Dekker, Bryan Matthews, Dr Ian Philips, Dr Li-ke Jiang

This project addressed the challenge of demonstrating the benefits of rail accessibility interventions (e.g. the provision of step-free access to platforms and trains) by means of a standard appraisal framework. The work reviewed best practice, developed a practical cost-benefit analysis (CBA) framework and supports the joint use of multi-criteria analysis (MCA) and CBA.

The project was funded by GBRTT and RSSB, via the academic partnership in rail economics between RSSB and ITS Leeds

Publications and outputs

https://www.rssb.co.uk/research-catalogue/CatalogueItem/COF-ECO-14