IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/tin/wpaper/19990040.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A Combinatorial Assessment Methodology for Complex Policy Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Francesca Medda

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • Peter Nijkamp

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Abstract

This paper proposes an integrated evaluation methodology which serves to alleviate the limitations of a singleevaluation approach by combining different assessment and policy analysis methods. It is demonstrated that, in a multi-criteria context, a so-called combinatorial framework can cope with the serious limitations of the above mentionedapproach, in particular the potential redundancy in the information table and the subjectivity of the 'expert' in theweight choice procedure. We use rough set analysis as a tool for classifying and identifying the most critical decisionattributes, while next a multi-criteria analysis is deployed in combination with other methods. We apply this newcombinatorial assessment methodology to an illustrative case study on transportation planning, where the coreassessment methodology is formed by a combined qualitative-quantitative regime analysis, extended withcomplementary approaches. The results of the analysis indicate that the combinatorial method indeed has theflexibility and capacity to assess complex multidimensional policy issues.

Suggested Citation

  • Francesca Medda & Peter Nijkamp, 1999. "A Combinatorial Assessment Methodology for Complex Policy Analysis," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 99-040/3, Tinbergen Institute.
  • Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:19990040
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/99040.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Nijkamp, Peter & Bal, Frans & Medda, Francesca, 1998. "A survey of methods for sustainable city planning and cultural heritage management," Serie Research Memoranda 0050, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
    2. Peter Nijkamp & Hans Ouwersloot, 1997. "A Decision Support System for Regional Sustainable Development: The Flag Model," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 97-074/3, Tinbergen Institute.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Camagni, Roberto, 2009. "Territorial Impact Assessment for European regions: A methodological proposal and an application to EU transport policy," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 342-350, November.
    2. Nijkamp, Peter & Torrieri, Francesca, 2000. "A decision support system for assessing alternative projects for the design of a new road network : methodology and application of a case study," Serie Research Memoranda 0021, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
    3. Nijkamp, Peter, 1997. "Environmental security and sustainability in natural resource management: a decision support framework," Serie Research Memoranda 0063, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
    4. Rhonda Phillips & Jay Stein, 2013. "An Indicator Framework for Linking Historic Preservation and Community Economic Development," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 113(1), pages 1-15, August.
    5. Tooraj Karimi & Arvin Hojati & Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, 2022. "A new methodology for sustainability measurement of banks based on rough set theory," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 30(1), pages 415-431, March.
    6. Forte, Fabiana & Nijkamp, Peter & Torrieri, Francesca, 2001. "Shared choices on local sustainability projects: a decision support framework," Serie Research Memoranda 0024, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:19990040. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tinbergen Office +31 (0)10-4088900 (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/tinbenl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.