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City and Regional Planning 763


The files here are intended for the use of students in C&RP 763 at OSU.

Most documents are available in two forms: as hypertext (HTML) and PDF files. The PDF files — which are correctly formatted — may require the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The HTML versions are produced by an automatic translator: if anyone notices that the symbols seem incorrect (for example, that they don’t match those in the PDF files, or if the notation changes without explanation from the one used in class) I’d appreciate being told, especially if you are viewing the material on a Macintosh.

Contents: Autumn 2009

  • Syllabus: HTML or PDF versions.
  • Mid-term exam with answers: PDF

    Important note: I’ve seen one case where the letter grade I entered didn’t match the numerical one. Please check that you’re in the right group from the table below, and let me know if I’ve made a mistake.

    Letter GradeScore RangeNumber of Students
    A 70–80 12
    A- 63–69.9 5
    B+ 57–62.9 2
    B 50–56.9 4
    B- 43–49.9 6
    C+ 37–42.9 3
    C 30–36.9 1
    C- 23–29.9 3
    D+ 17–22.9 1
    D 10-16.9 2

Announcements

  • For the class “homework” problem to re-do our 2-market example the other way round I get
    • y-market first: DCS = 44
    • x-market second: DCS = -24.2
    • So total impact = 44 - 24.2 = 19.8 as compared to the x-market-first way where we got 25.4.

Class Handouts

  • Philadelpha CCCC maps (print after doing View -> Fit Width, and in the Acrobat print dialog, check Current View).
  • Ohio 3C Passenger Rail project map
  • Table of present values
  • “Discounting: Formulas and Examples” ( PDF )
  • “wtp is area under demand curve” ( PDF )
  • “Change in Consumer’s Surplus — The Nonlinear Case”  (PDF)

    Supplementary remark on lookup and integration: at the end of the simplification step you have to work with a function x*(px) which depends on the own-price only. It may be easier to do the lookup if you change notation so that px is replaced by t, so you are looking at a function x*(t), where now t varies from px0 (numerical lower limit) to pxf (numerical upper limit). The advantage of this is that you’re now trying to match something that is closer in appearance to what’s in the lookup table. For example:

    • Original simplified expression: - integral 42 (23 - 0.1px + 0.03px2)dpx
    • Changed notation: - integral 42 (23 - 0.1t + 0.03t2)dt

    and it may be easier to match expressions here to the Rules in the anti-derivative lookup function. However, if you find this confusing, don’t worry about it: the way we did it in class works just fine.

  • “Change in Consumer’s Surplus — Multiple Markets” ( PDF )
  • Willig table
  • Housing price models handout
  • Domencich and McFadden handout
  • Travel Cost model handout.
  • Value of life handout (PDF).

Ohio Hub Project

Here are some documents for a much more recent transportation project: a high-speed rail line to connect Ohio cities and other parts of the Lake Erie region. More material is available at http://www.ohiohub.org

  • Project Website and another 3C Website contianing the Sept 2009 Amtrak report on the project
  • Project Final Draft Report ( PDF , 311 pages); same document 2-up ( PDF )
  • Appendices to the Final Draft Report ( PDF )
  • Cleveland–Columbus–Cincinanti study ( PDF , 56 pages) ; 2-up ( PDF ).
  • Ohio Economic Analysis ( PDF , 199 pages); 2-up (PDF )

Philadelphia CCCC Report

Here are sections of the analysis of the proposed Philadelphia Center City Commuter Connection, in PDF format. They are also availalable in the Exchange folder in the CRP 763 area of the Homework drive. Once you start the Acrobat Reader, you’ll want to rotate counter-clockwise to see it correctly.

Lecture Notes, etc

  • Last year’s midterm examination with answers ( PDF )
  • Last year’s final examination with answers ( PDF )

Note on the Problem Sets

The problem sets ( PDF version here)contain several problems which required that you “run the regression” and then use the results to do things like compute benefits according to one method or another. This was from a version of the class where students were required to get their hands dirty with data. Obviously, we’re not doing this now. The upshot is that you are not responsible in 763 for the details of running regressions — though you should certainly understand how to do this from 771 — and obviously you will not be asked to compute regression answers in an examination. You should understand, however, how to interpret a set of regression results: that is, assuming that someone else has done the dirty work, you should be able to work with those answers (regression estimates).  

Supplementary Readings

In June 2000 there was a special issue of the Journal of Legal Studies devoted to philosophical and legal aspects of cost-benefit analysis. Here are links to those papers (PDF only: the links are on a part of the site which will not be accessible outside the OSU domain). Note that the material in these papers is entirely optional; and we will not be covering it in the course.

If you get a dialog asking for authorization to connect to the facweb site, and just entering your user name in the User name field doesn’t work, try entering knowlton\your_user_name (ie the name you use when logging on to the lab computers); same for the Password. If you are not on the KSOA network you may be asked for a specific Domain in a separate input field: the answer here is knowlton.