Sélection, définition et harmonisation des indicateurs à retenir
Objective
Des indicateurs appropriés pour évaluer les effets du trafic routier seront sélectionnés en vue d’établir un jeu d’indicateurs harmonisés. Ces indicateurs, qui permettront des comparaisons entre régions exposées à des problèmes similaires en matière de trafic, serviront de base à des analyses plus poussées.
En outre, il est prévu de développer un indicateur nouveau pour rendre compte du trafic marchandises et du trafic voyageurs à partir des prestations de transport. On procédera à une analyse des prix des prestations et plus particulièrement de l’évolution de ces prix dans le but de rendre ce secteur accessible aux analyses quantitatives.
En outre, il est prévu de développer un indicateur nouveau pour rendre compte du trafic marchandises et du trafic voyageurs à partir des prestations de transport. On procédera à une analyse des prix des prestations et plus particulièrement de l’évolution de ces prix dans le but de rendre ce secteur accessible aux analyses quantitatives.
Resutls (abstract)
Even in the Alpine regions, the good functioning of daily the life and of the economy
depends on an efficient transportation system. But the huge growth of road traffic in
the last years has caused, and is still causing, considerable social effects (inequity,
effects on human's health, difficult cohesion of the community, etc.), environmental
impacts (greenhouse gases, air pollution, noise, lost of habitat, etc.) and also
detrimental effects on the economy itself (traffic congestion, mobility's barriers,
accidents, services costs, etc.).
For these reasons, on the political side people are doing big efforts along the main
Alpine crossing corridors to reduce the negative impacts. In particular they are
encouraging means of transport that are more compatible with the environmental
system and are trying to apply the concept of "sustainable mobility" to the transport
management. Sustainability is not so easy to measure because its definition not
directly imply methodologies or indications of instrument for its univocal and scientific
evaluation.
One way to understand the territorial and social systems can be the use of indicators,
which represent one useful instrument to help to understand the condition of a
system within its evolution and to take more efficient and comprehensive decisions.
In order to develop an analysis based on a monitoring system via indicators it is
necessary to fix a set of criteria to identify and develop the suitable indicators in
relation to the purposes of analysis: the efficient use of indicators can actually occur
only inside a technical and conceptual procedure fixed in advance. In particular, a
good technical and conceptual procedure necessary to create the conditions of an
analysis using suitable and efficient indicators, should be based on a set of criteria to
organize taxonomically the indicators according to a framework a set of criteria for
the selection of indicators as well as a set of methods for the evaluation of the
strategies and applied after the results of the analysis carried out with the help of the
indicators.
In the present study a list of criteria to select the indicators will be presented as well
as a presentation of the most important international frameworks, used for the correct
choice of the indicators for the analysis and evaluation. The most important and most
authoritative references are international institutions like OECD, UN and EEA. The
leading scheme used for the presentation of indicators in this study was derived form
the analysis of different experiences done in several contexts with different purposes
and it makes itself clear in a predisposition of a structure of an indicators' system
created on purpose of the goals of the MONITRAF project.
In order to achieve this goal, it has been created a list of 10 key questions strictly
referred to the purposes of the MONITRAF project. The analysis of these key
questions allows a discussion about the content of the different analysed lists of
indicators and equally the research of more indicators that could be of interest
referring to the basic purposes of the project, which results are in fact the produced
and presented list. For a further development of the proposed indicators it is
suggested a division after the specific goals of the MONITRAF project.
In particular, the indicators defined as "core" are the indicators which allow us to
give a picture of the main thematic spheres to the politicians, responsible of the
decision process and for the public discussion. Through them it is possible to trace
the involved factors and the possible improvements in the economic, environmental
and social performances. We must then understand the "key" indicators as a limited
group of indicators, obtainable from the group of indicators "core", which are of
particular interest and which respond to wider communication purposes and are of
particular importance for the intent to give clear and immediate information also to
the public opinion. In the procedure a motivated selection of "core" indicators will be
presented, which has been deduced comparing the different proposals, stemming
from the partners of the project on the base of the analysis of the presented charts. A
selection of "key" indicators, where the preceding result is particularly "labeled"
referring to the MONITRAF project. We have also analysed the different sources,
originating from different experiences on several levels: national, international and
community, indicating, even if not in all cases, many indicators, often adapted to the
analysis of the transport sector or to the application in the specific alpine territory.
Even in the Alpine regions, the good functioning of daily the life and of the economy
depends on an efficient transportation system. But the huge growth of road traffic in
the last years has caused, and is still causing, considerable social effects (inequity,
effects on human's health, difficult cohesion of the community, etc.), environmental
impacts (greenhouse gases, air pollution, noise, lost of habitat, etc.) and also
detrimental effects on the economy itself (traffic congestion, mobility's barriers,
accidents, services costs, etc.).
For these reasons, on the political side people are doing big efforts along the main
Alpine crossing corridors to reduce the negative impacts. In particular they are
encouraging means of transport that are more compatible with the environmental
system and are trying to apply the concept of "sustainable mobility" to the transport
management. Sustainability is not so easy to measure because its definition not
directly imply methodologies or indications of instrument for its univocal and scientific
evaluation.
One way to understand the territorial and social systems can be the use of indicators,
which represent one useful instrument to help to understand the condition of a
system within its evolution and to take more efficient and comprehensive decisions.
In order to develop an analysis based on a monitoring system via indicators it is
necessary to fix a set of criteria to identify and develop the suitable indicators in
relation to the purposes of analysis: the efficient use of indicators can actually occur
only inside a technical and conceptual procedure fixed in advance. In particular, a
good technical and conceptual procedure necessary to create the conditions of an
analysis using suitable and efficient indicators, should be based on a set of criteria to
organize taxonomically the indicators according to a framework a set of criteria for
the selection of indicators as well as a set of methods for the evaluation of the
strategies and applied after the results of the analysis carried out with the help of the
indicators.
In the present study a list of criteria to select the indicators will be presented as well
as a presentation of the most important international frameworks, used for the correct
choice of the indicators for the analysis and evaluation. The most important and most
authoritative references are international institutions like OECD, UN and EEA. The
leading scheme used for the presentation of indicators in this study was derived form
the analysis of different experiences done in several contexts with different purposes
and it makes itself clear in a predisposition of a structure of an indicators' system
created on purpose of the goals of the MONITRAF project.
In order to achieve this goal, it has been created a list of 10 key questions strictly
referred to the purposes of the MONITRAF project. The analysis of these key
questions allows a discussion about the content of the different analysed lists of
indicators and equally the research of more indicators that could be of interest
referring to the basic purposes of the project, which results are in fact the produced
and presented list. For a further development of the proposed indicators it is
suggested a division after the specific goals of the MONITRAF project.
In particular, the indicators defined as "core" are the indicators which allow us to
give a picture of the main thematic spheres to the politicians, responsible of the
decision process and for the public discussion. Through them it is possible to trace
the involved factors and the possible improvements in the economic, environmental
and social performances. We must then understand the "key" indicators as a limited
group of indicators, obtainable from the group of indicators "core", which are of
particular interest and which respond to wider communication purposes and are of
particular importance for the intent to give clear and immediate information also to
the public opinion. In the procedure a motivated selection of "core" indicators will be
presented, which has been deduced comparing the different proposals, stemming
from the partners of the project on the base of the analysis of the presented charts. A
selection of "key" indicators, where the preceding result is particularly "labeled"
referring to the MONITRAF project. We have also analysed the different sources,
originating from different experiences on several levels: national, international and
community, indicating, even if not in all cases, many indicators, often adapted to the
analysis of the transport sector or to the application in the specific alpine territory.
