Human mobility is crucial for the economic development and social wellbeing of the global dweller. Still, current mobility activities do not rhyme with sustainable development since they evoke negative externalities such as fatal road accidents, traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions. The causal relation between these social, economic and ecologic aspects makes decision-processes towards sustainable mobility fairly complex, as policy strategies within one particular field include repercussions within several other interrelated fields.This doctoral dissertation structures elementary assessment constituents in a theoretical framework to assess the sustainability of mobility policies. As such, probable intended and unintended effects can be identified when policy‐makers are determined to choose between a wide range of policy options. To perform the actual sustainability assessment of mobility policies, the theoretical framework allows different assessment methodologies of which the Multi-actor Multi-criteria Analysis (MAMCA) is particularly found suitable. The MAMCA incorporates stakeholder objectives in the impact assessment of alternative mobility policies to examine their merits and the drawbacks with respect to sustainability.
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Cathy Macharis and Prof. Koen Putman
Committee members: Prof. Jacek Zak; Prof. EM. Jean-Pierre Brans; Prof. Marie-Anne Guerry