Environmental and Social Analysis of Demand Management Techniques

Academic and research studies have analyzed the potential benefits and costs of demand management techniques mainly from the technical and economic point of view. Less is done from the environmental and social point of view and especially for the human factor that was hardly addressed. This paper develops a generalized methodological framework that focus on “human’ factor for evaluating the environmental and social impacts resulting from different demand management techniques. The framework is based on three well-accepted multicriteria methods, using both quantitative and qualitative criteria and it investigates the differentiation of the adverse effects on different types of areas. The innovation of the framework is twofold. Firstly, it introduces a common unit scale to measure the impacts/criteria that will be based entirely on human factor indicators and secondly, introduction of two types of weights (criteria related and spatial) is based on a decision analysis interview-method, taking into account the different views of different group of users. The framework is applied to four alternative policies/measures in a coastal area of Athens, in order to prove its flexibility, coherence and robustness in terms of handling uncertainty issues as far as it is possible.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

  Secretariat, 14 Avenue Berthelot
  69363 Lyon cedex 07,   France 
• Authors:
  • Kopsacheili, A G
  • Tsamboulas, Dimitrios A
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 43p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Environmental impacts; Human factors; Multiple criteria decision making; Policy making; Social impacts; Spatial analysis; Travel demand; Travel demand management; Uncertainty
• Geographic Terms: Athens (Greece)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01130246
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 19 2009 9:28AM