UK HS2 – houses unsaleable
The controversial HS2 infrastructure project in the UK is already impacting the housing market. Sales have fallen 27% in areas along the route between London and Birmingham, compared to a … Read More
Category: Analysis
Optimism bias uplifts for rail transport appraisals
[Česky] Readers have asked how feasibility studies should be evaluated against reality. The best-known method is Reference Class Forecasting (RFC). This is an established method for accounting for the systematic … Read More
The UK’s High-Speed Rail 2 (HS2) project has just seen the Eastern leg cancelled.
[Česky] HS2 was always one of the most disastrous megaprojects. It began with the former Labour Government and always had a hollow business case. The project was then taken on … Read More
“more than 130 thousand passengers per day – Railway Administration”
[Česky] Fantasy meets reality. This chart shows the actual number of passengers on high speed rail in other countries and the forecast number of passengers as predicted by the Rail … Read More