Panteia’s in-house tools for the transport sector allow us to carry out the process steps that lead to a sound and rigorous economic and financial analysis. To serve this purpose, Panteia has up-to-date cost and capacity figures and regular cost updates that are fed by the transport industry.
In addition to Panteia’s access to cost elements, the benefits can also be appropriately estimated with Panteia’s tools. The transport models and demand data[INVALID]s for passenger and freight are utilised for benefit estimation and for the estimation of external effects (i.e. emission of pollutants, noise, safety, risk analysis). Panteia’s expertise also covers the estimation of indirect effects of infrastructure policies, such as recursive (feedback) loops of positive effects of infrastructure development on the economy. For example, Panteia carried out a risk analysis of different mitigation techniques for derailment strategies on the European railway network (DRAIL-project) and a cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis were carried out to select the most effective strategies.
Furthermore, Panteia is able to scale experimental policies up to a higher level by for example, evaluating a business incentive in different areas, evaluating the number of passenger cars and freight vehicles that stop at a certain section on the road network, through a new intermodal transport concept, such as light-weight rail wagons at European level and by a modal split incentive carried out in one country that can be evaluated at European level by transferring its values.