Public Investment Criteria

Emeritus Professor, The University of Tsukuba, Japan

• Chapter 1: Public Investment Criteria: A Tentative Specific Survey on the Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Early Years.- Chapter 2: Economic Effects of Mei-Shin and To-Mei Expressways Based on the World Bank Formula of Fifty Years Ago.- Chapter 3: Generalized Benefit-Cost Criteria: Public Investment Criteria When the Benefits are Previously Measured.- Chapter 4: Optimum Allocation of the Capital Funds to the Transportation Infrastructures Using the Interregional Input-Output Programming Model (Part I): Specification with 5 regions, 5 industries, and 3 transport modes.- Chapter 5: Optimal comprehensive transport system and development of the model.- Chapter 6: Optimal Allocation of the Public Funds to the Transportation Infrastructures Using the Interregional Input-Output Programming Model (Part II): Specification with 10 regions, 10 industries, and 9 transport modes.- Chapter 7: Optimal planning of Asian Expressway Network with dynamic interregional input-output programming model.- Postscripts.- Acknowledgements.