Institute of Transport Studies

We are currently offering a £100 discount for delegates who would like to book onto this course and our Transport Investment Appraisal course.

Course Overview

The politics of devolved decision-making to cities has put the spotlight on how transport affects economic performance. Transport schemes are now judged and prioritised on their expected economic outcomes. Like it or not Gross Value Added and jobs are now part of the lexicon in transport planning, but:

• Have we got the right tools to be making decisions based on GVA and jobs?
• Are these tools being applied correctly?
• What is a reasonable level of economic impact? And;
• Underlying all that, why and how do we expect transport to affect the economy?

Judging from the many claims and counter-claims of ‘expected’ economic impact in the media, it may seem like the economic performance of transport has been reduced to rhetoric.
The primary aim of this course is therefore to give transport professionals the knowledge to see through the rhetoric and understand the fundamentals regarding the role that transport can play in shaping the economy and how those impacts can be brought into appraisal. After attending this course transport professionals will:

• have a solid grasp of how, when, why and to what extent transport infrastructure affects businesses and the economy,
• understand how to incorporate economic impacts into a transport cost benefit analysis.

This five day course, run by the Choice Modelling Centre (CMC) at the University of Leeds, will provide delegates with an in-depth introduction to basic and advanced choice modelling and stated choice survey design.

Taught by experts from the University of Leeds and the University of Sydney Business School, the course will consist of a mixture of lectures, computer practicals (using R and Ngene), and detailed case studies. Bringing together expertise from fields as diverse as transport, health, marketing and environmental economics, the course will cover all the steps required for successful choice modelling analyses, from inception via survey design and data collection to modelling, analysis, interpretation and implementation.