Growing the Railways Final Report: Difference between revisions

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Publication record
Title	Growing the Railways
Subtitle	Research papers: final report
Part of	Growing the Railways (2)‎
Publisher	Transport 2000‎ (11) Scott Wilson Railways‎ (1)
Authors	Ernest Godward (1)‎ Carolyn Dougherty (1)‎ Marwan Al-Azzawi (1)‎ Richard Carr (1)‎
Date	31 August 2005‎
Summary, keywords and locations
Summary	"Optimism bias is being applied twice to rail projects while only being applied once to roads, leading to a further bias in comparing the costs of road and rail projects."
Keywords	Heavy rail (160)‎ Public transport (201)‎ Stations (40)‎ Governance (141)‎ Planning (93)‎ Data (203)‎ Car dependency (79)‎ Third sector (45)‎
Locations	Great Britain (102)‎ Scotland (22)‎ Edinburgh (4)‎
How to find this document
Publication	Dead as of 7 November 2026‎
Archive	Archived by Wayback Machine on 26 February 2007‎‎

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