Analytic Network Process, Interactive Maps and Strategic Assessment: The Evaluation of Corridor24 Alternative Development Strategies

The development of strategic transport infrastructure needs to be accompanied through dedicated processes, enabling both the discussion and sharing of the expected positive and negative impacts and externalities. According to the different scales of intervention, satial strategies can assume different shapes and require the involvement of different range of experts and stakeholders. The topic of invelvement and long-lasting collaboration, in these cases, touches several dimensions: the actual physical and geographical distance between some of the actors, different cultural backgrounds and languages; the difficulty of reading outputs. The study oresents a Collaborative Assessment Workshop designed in order to allow different forms of interaction between the participating actors and enebling them to contributing referring to both their knowledge as local stakeholders and experts' skill

Integrating multicriteria evaluation and data visualization as a problem structuring approach to support territorial transformation projects

Large freight or passenger transport projects are problematic and controversial because many financial, technical, environmental and social aspects need to be considered. Indeed, the interface between the transport project and territorial planning domains is generally the focus of considerable heated debates, which often develop into conflicting decision contexts characterized by a high level of complexity. This paper presents a possible response to these difficulties through an innovative approach that integrates the analytic network process and the interactive visualization tool. The approach is intended to be deployed as problem structuring method, with a view to creating a common language for the actors involved and a shared basis for generating fruitful discussions. The proposed approach was applied in the context of the German section of the Genoa–Rotterdam railway corridor within the Interreg IVB NWE Project ‘‘Code24’’. The reported application shows how the combination of visualization and real-time interaction with spatial data provided effective decision support to a multinational stakeholder group. More generally, the application presented in this paper aims to demonstrate the potential of the approach for the selection of a transport improvement strategy within the content of territorial transformation