Project
QUITS - Quality Indicators for Transport Systems
Funding origin:
European
STRIA Roadmaps:
Other ()
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Duration:
Start date: 01/05/1996,
End date: 01/10/1997
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
Decision-making on mode, technology and journey choices will be improved if all costs are taken into account - for a single journey, this means the direct costs (e.g. fuel and road tolls), the value of travel time, and the external costs (e.g. air pollution and climate change). Appropriate valuation methods have recently been developed, and need to be integrated into an evaluation framework to support policy-making.
Objectives:
QUITS aimed to:
- identify an appropriate set of indicators and methodology for evaluating costs of alternative transport modes on individual inter-urban routes;
- implement the above in a form of computer software;
- validate the approach, using case studies.
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