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A Dynamic Performance Management Approach to Support Urban Transportation Planning

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Strategic Planning for Urban Transportation

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This chapter faces the methodological issues that characterize the development of strategic planning for urban transportation. In particular, the need to adopt a strategic management perspective is tackled through the development and combination of two theoretical approaches: performance management and system dynamics. The first is used to provide planners and decision makers with the tools to define, monitor, and pursue the urban area’s goals with regard to transportation. The second enables us to widen the boundaries of analysis in terms of time and space.

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    SD is a scientific approach based on simulation that was developed to deal with complex systems (Forrester 1961; Sterman 2000).

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    Positive (or direct) means that when one variable changes (e.g., increases), it determines a change in the same direction (e.g., increases) to the connected variable; negative (or indirect) means that when one variable changes (e.g., increases), it determines a change in the opposite direction (e.g., decreases) to the connected variable.

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    Mental models are defined as the assumptions, generalizations, and representations that influence how people understand the world and take action (Senge 1990).

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Noto, G. (2020). A Dynamic Performance Management Approach to Support Urban Transportation Planning. In: Strategic Planning for Urban Transportation. System Dynamics for Performance Management & Governance, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36883-8_2

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