Abstract
The publication of the White and Green European Transport Paper in 2011 highlighted the need of shifting the urban mobility planning, towards more sustainable means of transport (public transport, bicycle, and pedestrian trips). The new urban mobility planning aims in giving space to the human (citizen) rather than to the motorized vehicles (cars).
Since 2013, the European cities were encouraged to support the policy mentioned above, by develo** local Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) based on the specific procedure that was launched by the DG Move. Towards the end of 2019, the updated specifications were published, giving more detailed instructions for the SUMPs development as there was a low number of local authorities who managed to follow the cooperative philosophy of SUMP.
One of the most critical steps in this 12-step procedure is the assessment—with specific criteria—of all the alternative measures and infrastructures, which will be optimally combined, in order to better respond to the problems and the vision of each area and also covering their specific criteria and particularities. That was even more difficult in the European countries, like Greece, where the citizens’ attitude is not in favor of “green mobility” and the authorities are not familiar with co-planning and co-creative procedures.
The aim of the proposed article is to present a methodological framework based on the use of Multicriteria Analysis in order to enhance the implementation of the SUMP development as regards, mainly the evaluation of alternative measures and the selection of the most appropriate for each urban area according to their Sustainable Efficiency Index (SEI).
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Morfoulaki, M., Papathanasiou, J. (2021). Use of Multicriteria Analysis for Enchancing Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning and Decision-Making. In: Papathanasiou, J., Zaraté, P., Freire de Sousa, J. (eds) EURO Working Group on DSS. Integrated Series in Information Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70377-6_19
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