Abstract
This paper discusses the application of urban freight transport decision-support tools in cost benefit analyses (CBA). The principles of the CBA are based on the Microeconomic Theory. It is supposed that individuals optimise their benefits and, therefore, a single policy measure can have a certain influence on the whole consumption pattern. When the effects of a policy measure on the situation of companies are assessed in the framework of a CBA, a cost minimising can be supposed, and adaptations of the individual companies could be modelled by the application of optimisation tools. The difference between the cost situation before and after the realisation of a policy measure could thereby be determined. As an example, the adaptation changes in routing behaviour in the urban goods distribution will be discussed. It is shown that adaptations in the routing can absorb parts of the costs resulting from a lorry ban on certain urban streets. Guidelines for the use of optimisation tools for company modelling are deduced. Behaviour reactions of economic transport actors and methods for their assessment are analysed. For the covering abstract see ITRD E129315.
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