STEEDS: A strategic transport-energy-environment decision support

The paper describes the outcome of a European research project called STEEDS (Scenario-based framework to modelling Transport technology deployment: Energy-Environment Decision Support). It is an advanced Decision Support System (DSS) able to assist the policy makers in exploring the influences on market take-up of different transport technologies under various exogenous scenarios and policy options and in assessing the energy and environmental impacts of these technology mixes. To implement the decision-making analysis a newly developed evaluation methodology has been integrated into the DSS. The method, called NAIADE, allows decision-makers to evaluate complex choices on the basis of enhanced access to information of different types. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.