An operational information systems architecture for assessing sustainable transportation planning: principles and design

Maria Teresa Borzacchiello, Vincenzo Torrieri and Peter Nijkamp

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2009, vol. 32, issue 4, 381-389

Abstract: This paper offers the description of an integrated information system framework for the assessment of transportation planning and management. After an introductory exposition, in the first part of the paper, a broad overview of international experiences regarding information systems on transportation is given, focusing in particular on the relationship between transportation system's performance monitoring and the decision-making process, and on the importance of this connection in the evaluation and planning process, in Italian and European cases. Next, the methodological design of an information system to support efficient and sustainable transportation planning and management aiming to integrate inputs from several different data sources is presented. The resulting framework deploys modular and integrated databases which include data stemming from different national or regional data banks and which integrate information belonging to different transportation fields. For this reason, it allows public administrations to account for many strategic elements that influence their decisions regarding transportation, both from a systemic and infrastructural point of view.

Keywords: Monitoring; Information; system; Spatial; Data; Infrastructure; Performance-based; planning; Transportation; planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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