Updated guidelines for evaluation of ITS projects
Overview
Background & policy context:
It is necessary to determine the transport-related, socio-economic and other essential impacts of trials of new Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), applications and services in a reliable and consistent way, so that the wide-range implementation of corresponding systems can be decided upon objectively.
In order to ensure consistent evaluation of projects, the Finnish authorities decided to have guidelines drawn up for evaluating ITS projects.
Objectives:
The objective of the project was to draw up guidelines for the impact assessments of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) projects, thus enabling the comparison of ITS projects to one another and other investment projects from the point of view of impacts and economic feasibility. These guidelines are an updated version of the guidelines published earlier. Matters learnt using the old guidelines during the TETRA Programme were to be used in drafting the updated guidelines.
Methodology:
The study was performed as a desktop study using literature on ITS evaluation methods, the authors' own extensive experience in ITS and other evaluation studies in Finland and abroad, the Finnish general framework for the evaluation of transport projects (YHTALI) and feedback from the use of the earlier version of the ITS evaluation guidelines.
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