A strategic assessment tool for evaluating European Transport Policies - the High-Tool approach

Decisions on transport policy measures proposed by the European Union (EU) have long-term and important impacts on economy, environment and society. Transport policy measures can lock up capital for decades and cause manifold external effects – thus, policy measures may have a tremendous scope, especially if proposed on a European level. In order to allow European policy-makers to evaluate transport polices, a strategic assessment tool has been developed to compute economic, environmental and social impacts of transport policies.