Prioritization of Investment in Regional Transportation Infrastructure (Case Study: Gilan Province)

Increasing urbanization and the need for relocation introduces optimal transportation as a major factor in increasing the level of citizen satisfaction. As a result, governments often spend most of their budgets on repairing and building transportation infrastructure. Now, if a precise and expert decision is not made to prioritize investment in transportation infrastructure, it will cause budget waste, negative impact on the economy and environmental and social damage. Due to the limited budget of Gilan province and the economic conditions prevailing in the whole country, the purpose of this article is to determine the investment priorities in the transportation infrastructure of Gilan province. This research is applied in terms of purpose and analytical-descriptive in terms of method. Document collection was done by referring to articles, documents and books and field collection was done using a questionnaire. In the present study, the multi-criteria method of infrastructure prioritization framework or IPF was used to prioritize investment in transportation infrastructure, which is a quantitative multi-criteria prioritization method and measures socio-environmental and financial-economic indicators. In addition to budget constraints are considered. In this method, using the opinion of experts in the form of a questionnaire and collecting the required data, calculations were performed, which finally showed the results on a visible graph. The analysis of the findings and results shows that the railway infrastructure in Gilan province has the first priority of investment, followed by road infrastructure in the second place and maritime transport infrastructure in the third place, and finally the transport infrastructure. Air is a priority

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Modeling and simulating the economic and demographic impact of transport infrastructure investment

Investment in transportation infrastructure has been widely utilized as an instrument for inducing economic growth in a country or region. Such investment usually leads to job creation and an increase in per capita income that, in turn, encourages an increase in population through migration. The increased spending of these newly migrated populations leads to secondary job creation and further economic development. However, this increased economic activity corresponds with increased utilization of the transport infrastructure resulting in high levels of congestion. This congestion may negatively impact the attractiveness of the region for further new investment since the level of congestion in a transportation network is known to affect the productivity of the workforce. Thus, congestion has a direct impact on the region's GRP (Gross Regional Product). Often, calls are made to alleviate this congestion through added investment in the transport infrastructure. This, again, further spurs economic activity, migration, and congestion. The present study employs a system dynamics approach for modeling the cyclic relationships observed between the economic impact of transportation infrastructure and regional development. Our approach uses a common platform wherein the interconnected factors of demography, transportation infrastructure, and economic activity are jointly modeled and simulated. This model aspires to be utilized as a decision support and consensus building tool in the process of better understanding the impact of investment in transport infrastructure. © 2011 Simulation Councils, Inc