STEEDS: A strategic transport-energy-environment decision support

Resource constraints, improved availability and quality of information, and increasing public awareness are all contributing to severe difficulties in arriving at acceptable decisions in such areas of public policy as choice of energy technologies, environmental management and transport planning. The paper describes a European research project called STEEDS (Strategic Transport Energy Environment Decision Support). The project is aimed at developing an advanced Decision Support System (DSS) able to assist the policy makers in the evaluation of future technology and policy options for the European transport system. The system allows decision-makers to evaluate complex choices on the basis of enhanced access to large amount of information generated by an integrated set of models and using a newly developed multicriteria decision aid module.