Project and Policy Evaluation in Transport

Liana Giorgi, Alan Pearman, Annuradha Tandon, Dimitrios Tsamboulas

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138728929
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351748483
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

This title was first published in 2002: There is a multitude of assessment methods available for analyzing and reporting on the impacts of policies, all with different underlying assumptions and a wide range of criteria. Since the 1950s, much research has gone into creating guidelines for policy analysis, yet only a small percentage of evaluation has been carried out on transport policy - and none by political scientists or social policy specialists. The editors of this volume recognize that European integration has seen a drive to bring policy evaluation on to the transport agenda and has increased demands for 'strategic assessments'. It has become apparent that to gain a fuller understanding of the success of a transport programme, a much more complex combination of analytical methods must be used, and a set of guidelines specifically for the field of transport must be developed. This book achieves this by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of analysts from throughout the EU to discuss in a much broader way the various types of assessment methods and how they can best be used to evaluate transport programmes and systems, both individually and in combination.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• 1 Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Evaluation
• 2 The Policy-Making Process in the European Union
• 3 The EU Enlargement and its Impact on European Policies
• 4 Enlarging EU Environmental Policy: The Challenges of Flexibility and Integration
• 5 Analytical Frameworks for Policy and Project Evaluation: Contextualizing Welfare Economics, Public Choice and Management Approaches
• 6 Evaluation of Projects and Programmes: Principles and Examples
• 7 Transport Evaluation Methods: From Cost-Benefit Analysis to Multicriteria Analysis and the Decision Framework
• 8 Criteria for Evaluation Towards Sustainability