Sustainable Urban Land Use and Transportation Planning: A Cognitive Decision Support System for the Naples Metropolitan Area

ABSTRACT Increasing needs for higher mobility are often met by design and implementation of new infrastructure provisions. The challenging question is whether this choice increases the general political objective of sustainable development. In this context, also the land-use and transportation interfaces have to be envisaged. The article aims to offer a methodological/operational contribution to sustainable mobility policy in the Naples metropolitan area (in the Campania Region1 1The case study is part of a test project of the land use/transport laboratory of the Regional Centre of Competence funded by the Campania Region in the Operative Regional Program 2000–2006 (measure 3.13) and coordinated by Prof. Vincenzo Torrieri. , Italy). Scenario analysis is used to design combined land-use/transportation plans to be assessed from a sustainability perspective. Long-range choice options are evaluated using inter alia a sophisticated multicriteria analysis (i.e., hierarchical Regime method). Sensitivity analyses will test the robustness of policy rank order solutions found by the above multicriteria analysis.