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EVA TREN is a
research project supported by the European Commission and developed
within the
VI Framework Programme
The main
objectives of the project are:
- reviewing the ex ante assessment approaches for large
infrastructure projects;
- selecting the best practices;
- improving the assessment methodologies for the ex-ante evaluation
through the ex post evaluation.
EVA TREN
project aims at improving the ex ante appraisal practices for
the assessment of large Energy and Transport infrastructures
projects through the ex post analysis of several case studies.
Furthermore the project will also develop a document containing
evaluation guidelines on the topic.
The final
output of the project will be twofold. On one side the
standardisation of the ex post evaluation methodologies. On the
other side it will carry out a matching exercise for case studies
between ex-ante and ex-post analyses, in order to improve assessment
procedures. The question to which the EVA TREN project is expected
to answer is extremely relevant and regards the effectiveness of the
current assessment tools and practices compared with the problem
complexity to deal with. As a matter of fact the evaluation tools
should be a planning instruments useful to establish a dialogue with
the other projects phases and, at the same time, to manage the
several dimension of the policy decision support.
The adopted
methodology could be summed up as follows:
1. identification of the most critical aspect concerning the
implementation of large infrastructure projects;
2. supporting the developments of tools, indicators and operational
parameters for the assessment of sustainable transport and energy
network;
3. suggesting good practices to the policy makers.
All these
activities, which would be a sound theoretical improvement, will be
supported by the available scientific literature but above all by a
deep analysis and re-examination of the eleven case studies. These
have been selected both according to their Community dimension
relevance and to their work advancement stage, which in some case
reached up the end.
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