Yasuhisa Hayashiyama

ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF SNOW-REMOVAL LEVEL BY CONTINGENT VALUATION METHOD

The road management department of the city of Sapporo has improved the service level of winter road management year by year, and its current annual budget is

POST-EVALUATION OF THE JAPANESE RAILWAY NETWORK, 1875-1940.

100 million. In the cost-benefit evaluation of winter road management, conventional studies have not included as evaluation subjects the indirect benefits, such as improvement in quality of life (an increase in pedestrian accessibility, safety, and walkability), other than benefits for traffic markets. The contingent valuation method (CVM) was adopted to include the indirect benefits in the evaluation. The results of the cost-benefit evaluation by applying CVM are described, and facts that should be taken into consideration in CVM application are discussed. Benefits of the development of winter road management levels were estimated by multiplying willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept compensation (WTA) by the number of households in Sapporo (752,267 in February 1998). In the case of deteriorated winter road management level, WTP was

The Measuring the Benefits of Interregional Transportation Improvement Projects

27 million to

Evaluation of Possibilities of Climate Stabilization Policy considering Different Discount Rates: Simulation Analysis using the Modified RICE Model

33 million, and WTA was

Social Cost of the Noise by the Automobile and the Evaluation Method

190 million to

Benefit Evaluation of Snow Removal with Stated Preference Method

300 million. In the case of improved level, WTP was

Measuring the Option Price of Snow Removal Projects in the Winter Urban Environment by the Contingent Valuation Methods

17 million to

Time-saving Benefit Evaluation for Transport Projects

23 million, and WTA was

Evaluation of recreation benefit by household production function approach

180 million to

LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF THE CATASTROPHE RISK OF GLOBAL WARMING BY DYNAMIC MODEL

200 million. The estimation results varied greatly depending on means of payment to the questioned value. This indicated that a careful examination of the suitability of the questioning method, whether WTA or WTP, is required.