Background and aim The paper focuses on the methodology\r\nfor assessing Sustainable Mobility (SM) at the neighbourhood\r\nscale, and pays attention to two different ex-ante\r\nevaluation approaches: the Multicriteria Analysis (MCA)\r\nand the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA). If MCA is an acknowledged\r\ntechnique for the assessment of sustainability at\r\nneighbourhood level, CBA is mainly used for infrastructure\r\nand large transformation projects. The aim of the paper is\r\ntwofold: (i) highlight strengths and weaknesses of the two\r\ntechniques, especially when assessing SM at the neighbourhoods\r\nscale; (ii) investigate the applicability of MCA and\r\nCBA to evaluate some relevant SM strategies and policies at\r\nthe neighbourhood scale. To do so, a detailed description of\r\nMCA and CBA is presented and, when it exists, a review of\r\ntheir application to assess SM at neighbourhood level is described.\r\nStrengths and weaknesses of the approaches are, therefore,\r\nhighlighted and their applicability to some specific SM\r\nmeasures are examined.\r\nResults and conclusions It results that the joint use of the two\r\nmethodologies could overcome their mutual weaknesses, providing\r\na coherent methodology for assessing both efficiency\r\nand effectiveness of SM policies and projects.
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