AN ASSESSMENT OF ADVANCED TRANSPORT TELEMATICS EVALUATION PROCEDURES

This paper reviews and critically assesses procedures which have been adopted to evaluate Advanced Transport Telematics (ATT) projects. The importance of such a review at this juncture stems from the changing p osition of ATT in transport planning. ATT is no longer simply a field for experimentation, where technical feasibility and user acceptance a re dominant concerns. Rather it is a potential mainstream contributor to the functioning of road transport systems. For this reason, ATT pro ject appraisal needs to be developed to the same form, level of sophis tication and consistency as the appraisal of conventional transport in frastructure investment. Based on the review set out here, we argue th at appropriate methods have not yet been established which, in turn, p oses a number of challenging questions, since current socio-economic e valuation procedures are not directly suited to either measuring or ev aluating many of the impacts which ATT schemes are implemented to achi eve.