Integrated Transport Planning Framework Involving Combined Utility Regret Approach

Abstract

Sustainable transport planning requires an integrated approach involving strategic planning, impact analysis and multi-criteria evaluation. This study aims at relaxing the utility-based decision-making assumption by newly embedding anticipated-regret and combined utility-regret decision mechanisms in an integrated transport planning framework. The framework consists of a two-round Delphi survey, an integrated land-use and transport model for Madrid, and multi-criteria analysis. Results show that (i) regretbased ranking has similar mean but larger variance than utility-based ranking, (ii) the least-regret scenario forms a compromise between the desired and the expected scenarios, (iii) the least-regret scenario can lead to higher user benefits in the short-term and lower user benefits in the long-term, (iv) utility-based, regret-based and combined utility-regretbased multi-criteria analysis result in different rankings of policy packages, and (v) the combined utility-regret ranking is more informative compared with utility-based or regretbased ranking.

The motivation underlying adolescents׳ intended time-frame for driving licensure and car ownership: A socio-ecological approach

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COPE-SMARTER – A decision support system for analysing the challenges, opportunities and policy initiatives: A case study of electric commercial vehicles market diffusion in Denmark

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