The current macroeconomic evaluation procedures (e.g. standardized evaluation of public transport infrastructure projects, BVWP evaluation procedures) focus predominantly on
These procedures are thus based on a "predict and provide" regime: an infrastructure project is justified by the fact that it can handle the predicted traffic flows in proportion to the costs of project implementation. In MCube, however, we want to shape mobility and spaces. We therefore think further than simply aligning the infrastructure with exogenously determined traffic growth. This gives infrastructure projects a new meaning: their justification is based on a target image ("decide and provide" or "design and provide"), not a traffic forecast.
In BeneVit, we are therefore developing a process to support decision-making and provide a basis for information
The innovative aspect of our method is, firstly, that we look at packages of push and pull measures. Secondly, we try to evaluate the specific contribution to objectives in the metropolitan region by means of a degree of target achievement.
In this way, the most effective and sensible packages of measures for a metropolitan region in relation to their costs can be determined.
We have developed a method proposal for this. We are currently in the process of developing the calculation rules for the indicators. These are being tested iteratively in a case study in the Munich metropolitan region. We are confident that we will be able to report initial results in the second half of the year.
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