Evaluating transport and land use policies under disruption

This paper asks if standard decision-making tools and logics can be applied to disruptive events. In particular we explore whether user costs/benefits are likely to be truly representative of the costs/benefits experienced during periods of disruption, and therefore whether cost benefit analysis methods are appropriate for the assessment of policies/interventions that ameliorate the impacts of disruptions. We conclude that the unique economic characteristics of disruptive events requires a more complete evaluation framework than would usually be employed for the assessment of infrastructure impacts.