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The scientific literature frequently discusses questions if cost-benefit analysis (CBA) or multi-criteria decisionmaking(MCDM) is the appropriate appraisal tool in transport policy-making, or a combination of both. Hardly anyliterature exists on the opinions of real transport policy decision-makers about appraisal tools such as CBA or MCDM(or both) which are actually supposed to help them. The aim of this paper is to discuss from a politicians’ perspectivehow a useful transport policy appraisal tool might look like. Twenty-one Dutch transport politicians were interviewedon their views on CBA. The results show that they use CBA but in a non-decisive manner and they find the aggregateoutcome (the composite result) of CBAs pretentious. They seem especially interested in appraisal tools which showclearly to them the political important trade-offs of a transport policy. This paper proposes a possible approach forsuch a trade-off information sheet using both CBA and MCDM.
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