Evaluation

Glen Weisbrod

A chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society, 2025, pp 144-145 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Transport planning, prioritisation, funding, and implementation decision-making are rationally based on “evaluation” of relevant factors. This typically includes a systematic analysis of decision choice alternatives, their requirements for implementation and success, and associated costs, benefits, and impacts for both users and non-users. There are multiple forms of evaluation, which consider different sets of factors, metrics, and perspectives. They encompass feasibility, efficiency, and impact evaluations, and include cost-benefit and multi-criteria methods. All are evolving though they can still often overlap and leave gaps in coverage, so there is a continuing effort to improve evaluation methods and their use.

Keywords: Cost-benefit analysis; Multi-criteria analysis; Cost effectiveness; Feasibility; Efficiency; Environmental impact; Social impact; Economic impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330515
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