'The Graduate School of the Humanities, Utrecht University'
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to discuss procedures for assessing the impacts of
different evaluation methods used in systems designed to sustainable urban mobility
planning and management. The case studied shows a comparison of the points of
view assumed by a small group of experts when using two particular systems. The
evaluation methods used in those systems are: Pair-wise Comparisons and Scale of
Points. The evaluation was conducted for groups of indicators devised for urban
mobility monitoring, which were called Themes. The twenty Themes were also
grouped in the following five general Categories: Transport and Environment,
Transport Management, Transport Infrastructure, Transport Planning, and
Socioeconomic Aspects of Transport. The main conclusions drawn from the
application of non-parametric statistical methods for comparing the results of the
evaluations suggest that the method Scale of Points could be the most indicated for
evaluations with community members in general (experts or non-experts).GRICES (Office for International Relations in Science and Higher Education of the Portuguese Ministry of Science).CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).FAPESP (Foundation for the Promotion of Science of the State of São Paulo).CAPES (Post-Graduate Federal Agency)
