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Urban Infrastructure Investment and Rent-Capture Potentials / Viguie, V.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Viguie, V.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Modeling.
- Municipal Housing and Land.
- Public Finance.
- Public Sector Development.
- Public Transport.
- Roads & Highways.
- Transport.
- Transport Economics Policy and Planning.
- Urban Development.
- Urban Economics.
- Local Subjects:
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Modeling.
- Municipal Housing and Land.
- Public Finance.
- Public Sector Development.
- Public Transport.
- Roads & Highways.
- Transport.
- Transport Economics Policy and Planning.
- Urban Development.
- Urban Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (41 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2014
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In a context of rapid urbanization and energy transition, massive investments will be required to develop efficient public transport networks. Capturing the increase in land value caused by transport infrastructure (for example, through a betterment tax) appears a promising way to finance public transport. However, it is no trivial task, as it is difficult to anticipate the rent creation. This paper uses a simple city model based on urban economic theory to compute the rent created by improvements in public transport infrastructure in Paris, France. To apply in places where models or data are not available, a reduced form of the model is shown to provide acceptable approximations of the rent creation. Simulations confirm that land value capture can finance a significant part of transport investments. The simulations also show that value capture potentials are influenced by what happens in the entire agglomeration. Simultaneous infrastructure investments in different parts of the city play a significant role, as they change overall accessibility patterns. Evolutions taking place in other cities also have a comparable influence. Non-local effects can change the total potential for land value capture and multiply this potential by as much as a factor of two.
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