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Rational and consistent policy analysis presupposes a reliable assessment and balanced evaluation of all foreseeable consequences and choice possibilities in relation to policy initiatives. The aim of generating and judging alternative frameworks of policy measures is a far from easy task for mainly two reasons. The process of generating meaningful choice options in the context of policy analysis is extremely complicated in an open, multi-actor social system with diverging interests, while also the assessment of expected impacts of policy measures — especially in a dynamic spatial system — is fraught with many difficulties inherent in the uncertainty context of decision-making.
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Nijkamp, P., Blaas, E. (1994). Principles of Impact Assessment. In: Impact Assessment and Evaluation in Transportation Planning. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8293-3_3
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