Evaluation of urban transport policy: Development of an approach to express and measure policy goals in traffic networks in Dutch cities

Urban transport policy is often formulated in general terms. This makes it hard to define where policy objectives are of importance in an urban network. Also comprehensive evaluation of transport policy is lacking in most cities. Therefore, this research aims to develop a generic approach for policy makers in Dutch cities to make urban transport policy more specific and measurable on the network level. Based on a case study of some steps of the GGB+ method, of which the results are validated by expert interviews, it can be stated that urban transport policy can be made more tangible by priority maps and function maps. To create these maps, links are prioritized based on policy principles and route choice behaviour and sorted by a traffic engineering classification. Subsequently, this classification can be matched with transport policy objectives by a translation into indicators and assignment of corresponding factors to the classification. Afterwards, these maps can be used to select important evaluation locations and appropriate data collection methods that take the restrictions of an urban network that influences data quality into account. This thesis points out that further research can be done to the accuracy of data sources for slow modes, valuable combinations of data fusion and to indicators that express policy goals in a network for several modes at the same time.Civil Engineering and GeosciencesTransport & Plannin