Author(s)

E. Musso & C. Ferrari

Abstract

In most socio-economic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short run, may induce unoptimal choices, due to two major problems: • who has to take the decisions concerning priority and relative importance of the different goals; • the process through which decisions are taken. Both problems have clearly a political nature, but could be satisfactorily faced by using multicriterial analysis techniques. A model derived from these techniques is proposed in this paper, in the aim of: • allowing comparison and ranking among non-homogeneous options; • monitoring a given set of indexes, referring to relevant features of urban transit and environment, for a given group of cities, thus allowing comparisons over space (among c

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