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A cost benefit analysis approach based on land value for snow control on urbanized area in Japan Kamimura , Seiji ; Morohashi, Kazuyuki

Av: Medverkande: Språk: Engelska Språk: Franska Serie: ; topic II-113Utgivningsinformation: XIth international winter road congress 2002. Sapporo [Japan] / XIe congres international de la viabilite hivernale 2002, Sapporo [Japon]. Paper, 2002Beskrivning: 9 sÄmnen: Bibl.nr: VTI 2002.0071Location: Abstrakt: In these days, large scale snow transporting systems, such as snow removing ditch networks and/or new snow-melting technologies, are planning to introduce to snowy regions in Japan. They need considerably higher cost to pay comparing with conventional systems: snow ploughing, sprinkle melting and truck transportation. When making decision of measures for snow control, though cost benefit analysis is one of the important approaches, there was no way to estimate the benefit of snow removal from urbanized area of snowy regions. In this paper we propose a simple cost benefit analysis approach based on land value for snow control on urbanized area. The principal factor of snow damage is the spatial occupation by snow cover and/or snow bank formed by snow displacement operation. According to an assumption that the benefit brought by a new snow removing system corresponds to the land rent fee of that place multiplied by the area cleared by the system, benefit cost ratio, B/C, is easily calculated from declared data, such as land value, planning area and cost for the system. Case studies of conventional systems, snow ploughing, sprinkle melting and snow removing ditch networks, were carried out in Nagaoka City and Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture. Benefit cost ratios of the conventional systems are more than 10 and are strongly affected by the amount of snowfall in the winter and the land value of the place. Validity of these results is confirmed with the results of some other cost benefit analysis for snow ploughing operation. While the benefit cost ratio of the snow removing ditch networks had installed in Tokamachi City is approximately one, hence it is concluded that the system is economically efficient.
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In these days, large scale snow transporting systems, such as snow removing ditch networks and/or new snow-melting technologies, are planning to introduce to snowy regions in Japan. They need considerably higher cost to pay comparing with conventional systems: snow ploughing, sprinkle melting and truck transportation. When making decision of measures for snow control, though cost benefit analysis is one of the important approaches, there was no way to estimate the benefit of snow removal from urbanized area of snowy regions. In this paper we propose a simple cost benefit analysis approach based on land value for snow control on urbanized area. The principal factor of snow damage is the spatial occupation by snow cover and/or snow bank formed by snow displacement operation. According to an assumption that the benefit brought by a new snow removing system corresponds to the land rent fee of that place multiplied by the area cleared by the system, benefit cost ratio, B/C, is easily calculated from declared data, such as land value, planning area and cost for the system. Case studies of conventional systems, snow ploughing, sprinkle melting and snow removing ditch networks, were carried out in Nagaoka City and Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture. Benefit cost ratios of the conventional systems are more than 10 and are strongly affected by the amount of snowfall in the winter and the land value of the place. Validity of these results is confirmed with the results of some other cost benefit analysis for snow ploughing operation. While the benefit cost ratio of the snow removing ditch networks had installed in Tokamachi City is approximately one, hence it is concluded that the system is economically efficient.