Project and Policy Evaluation in Transport

Publication Year

This title was first published in 2002.

Assessment Methods in Policy Analysis

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.

Historical Context

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.

European Integration and Policy Evaluation

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.

Need for Complex Analytical Methods

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.

Multidisciplinary Approach

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.