Quality-of-Life Method for Appraisal of Transport Facilities: Theory, Case Studies, and Implications to Indian High-Speed Railway

The Sustainable Development Goals aim for “inclusiveness”, which means leaving no one left behind. In the transport sector, the question to ask is whether the service covers people of all categories—whether young and old, men and women, rich and poor—living in various places— whether in the city center or the suburbs or in big cities or rural areas. This presentation discusses the quality-of-life (QoL) method looks at transport from the perspective of individual users as receivers of requested values such as shopping, medical care, taking children to kindergarten, via urban and local transport; and for business, tourism, meetings with family and friends, via intercity transport.