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HS2 – UK Government Declines Future Guarantee

vrtwtf 23 September 2023

Prime Minister Sunak and Chancellor Hunt Discuss Scrapping Phase Two Amid Cost Spiral. HS2, the UK’s high-speed rail project, can be compared to the Czech VRT project. Reasons why the … Read More

Optimism bias uplifts for rail transport appraisals

vrtwtf 17 May 2022

[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

Analysis

vrtwtf 19 November 2021

[Česky] Whether an infrastructure project should be built generally revolves around the ‘benefit to cost‘ (BCR) ratio. How many Euros back do the public see for every Euro of their … Read More

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HS2 – UK Government Declines Future Guarantee

Optimism bias uplifts for rail transport appraisals

Viability