Basic Rail Transportation Infrastructure Index
The Basic Rail Transportation Infrastructure Index is a synthetic measure combining rail transportation metrics and cost efficiency observations, used as an indicator a country’s relative development in modern land transportation.
The index was first developed by World Pensions Council financial economists within a cross-country comparative framework that included ten key jurisdictions: the UK, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Turkey, the US, and Brazil.
The relative advancement of a nation’s transportation infrastructure can also be measured using a more refined model called Rail Transportation Infrastructure Index: ‘ RTI’ or simply ‘RTI’, whereby cost-efficiency is given more weight than average speed, thus allowing for more robust cross-country comparisons
