Welcome to the website of the Special Interest Group

Transport systems analysis and economic evaluation is a multidisciplinary field which draws on management, engineering, operations research, and finds its roots in social sciences such as economics (e.g. cost-benefit analysis), political science, and sociology.

It evaluates the fundamental issues in planning, design and management of transportation systems. It also analyses the socio-economic performance of transport systems as well as the processes of evaluation and investment choice. Specifically, the impact of interaction among all the transport modes are investigated with a system approach, and not solely based on individual transport modes such as urban transport, or rail transport etc.

Objectives

As SIG E1 we aim to

• provide a platform to exchange ideas, theories, methods used in Transport System Analysis and Economic Evaluation through conferences, workshops, symposia, meetings, etc.,

• organize and manage Transport System Analysis and Economic Evaluation sessions at WCTRS World Conferences,

• break the trend of business as usual scenarios in transport investment decisions in a way to reduce the imbalances among the transportation models and guide the decision makers in their way to obtain sustainable transportation systems,

• establish communication between researchers and policy makers regarding Transport System Analysis and Economic Evaluation.