10.6092/1970-9870/2522Vavatsikos, Athanasios P.Giannopoulou, MariaTransportation Infrastructure Impacts Evaluation: The Case of Egnatia Motorway in GreeceTema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment2014Multiattribute Decision Aid; AHP; Ideal Point Methods; GIS2014-05-152014-05-152014-05-162014-06-03engArticle3-171-2522<p>TeMA is an open access, online publication, with licence:</p><table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="82"><p><img title="cc-by-80x15_80" src="http://www.rmojs.unina.it/public/site/images/ojs/cc-by-80x15_80.png" alt="cc-by-80x15_80" width="80" height="15" /></p></td><td><em><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_blank">CCPL Creative Commons Attribution</a></em></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The author retains the copyright of his work whilst granting anyone the possibility “to reproduce, distribute, publicly communicate, publicly exhibit, display, perform and recite the work”, provided that the author and the title of the journal are cited correctly. When submitting the text for publication the author is furthermore required to declare that the contents and the structure of the work are original and that it does not by any means compromise the rights of third parties nor the obligations connected to the safeguard of the moral and economic rights of other authors or other right holders, both for texts, images, photographs, tables, as well as for other parts which compose the contribution. The author furthermore declares that he/she is conscious of the sanctions prescribed by the penal code and by the Italian Criminal and Special Laws for false documents and the use false documents, and that therefore TeMA is not liable to responsibilities of any nature, civil, administrative or penal, and that the author agrees to indemnify and hold TeMA harmless from all requests and claims by third parties.</p><br /><br />To expand GIS abilities to the consideration of decision criteria, OR/MS researchers strongly pronounce in favor of developing synergies between GIS and multicriteria decision making tools. The rationale of this integration is the GIS ability to store and manage and visualize geographically referenced data and the efficiency of Operational Research tools for modeling decision problems. As a result, MultiCriteria Spatial Decision Support Systems (MC-SDSS) provide a consistent framework that allows alternatives’ ranking combining both spatial data and DMs preferences according to a selected decision rule. Regarding to their applicability in situations that involve classification, multiattribute decision models are considered as a very attractive procedure in urban and regional planning concerning the appraisal of transportation infrastructure construction. In the present a spatial multicriteria evaluation of the impacts derived by the realization of Egnatia Motorway is performed. Egnatia Motorway is considered one of the most significant interventions that have taken place in Greece during the early pre-Olympic Games period and up to the year 2007. With a length of 670 km, it crosses 12 prefectures starting from the Igoumenitsa Port, which provides links by boat to Italy, ending to Kipi in Evros (Greek-Turkish borders). It is a dual carriageway with two traffic lanes per direction with an overall construction cost of about 6b€. Aiming to enrich Northern Greece’s potential in transport industry and tourism, European Union has heavily invested in its construction. In the present paper an integration among GIS functionalities and multi-attribute decision making models such as Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Ideal Point Methods is proposed in order to estimate the impacts provoked by the construction and operation of Egnatia Motorway in regional level.Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2014: INPUT 2014 - Smart City: planning for energy, transportation and sustainability of the urban system