Investigation of optimal approaches to assessing the innovative potential for regional transport improvement. Part i: choice of methods

In the article, the authors set a goal to identify the most accurate and eco-nomical methods for assessing the innovative potential of regions for the de-velopment of their transport infrastructure in terms of the resources used. There two parts of the work which are going to be published in different is-sues. To achieve the goal, methods were selected, calculations were carried out for two of them, which are suitable for the goal and described in detail in the methodological literature, and the results of two methods presented in the public domain for comparable periods of time for three selected regions were used. The study used materials from Russian and foreign sources. Based on the results, certain conclusions were made that allow more accurate selection of methods for assessing the innovative potential of regions, taking into account the objectives of such an assessment, as well as the resource availability of a researcher group. However, none of the methods considers the development of transport infrastructure as a separate factor. A critical view on the further application of all methods is going to be presented in the next issue