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Table 4 Welfare estimates: SEK/person/year in 2004 price level

From: Benefit measures for noise abatement: calculations for road and rail traffic noise

Change

REBUS

ASEK 4a

HEATCOb

Day et al. [19]c

High

Low

W/o health

W/ health

Road

Road

Railway

Road

Railway

Road

Railway

Road

Railway

56

55

363

24

437

98

280

125

0

218

578

61

60

424

86

498

161

336

125

125

300

656

66

65

495

308

569

382

616

125

125

383

733

71

70

578

1,096

652

1,170

2,371

817

817

465

811

75

74

654

3,027

729

3,101

3,621

204

204

548

888

  1. Adjusted to 2004 price level using the CPI from [65].
  2. a Adjusted based on real GDP [65].
  3. b Adjusted from factor costs. factor = 1.21 [65]. EUR 1 = SEK 9.16 (www.riksbank.se, 2008–11-28)
  4. c Adjusted from household to person based on 2.36 household members [44] and purchasing power parity (stats.oecd.org, 2007–09-02). The reported value for the highest level is for the interval 74 - 75 dB. Since REBUS is based on dB, we have chosen 74 - 75 dB as the highest interval.