Abstract
The sustainable development of transport is fostered by innovations. To implement innovations, the European Commission issues different regulations, programs and initiatives and the European Transport Policy has a significant impact on transport policy in the member states. At the same time, transport policy is dynamic and requires new solutions that will allow the planned goals to be achieved. In this context, it is important to analyze the effectiveness of the current innovation policies, and to create recommendations for future actions that bring innovations to the market. This article concerns the subject of innovation policy in the transport sector. It illustrates the possibility of applying one of the methods of the multiple criteria decision aid, i.e., the simple additive weighting (SAW) method to assess the European Union (EU) and national policy measures in surface transport in terms of their influence on the market take-up of innovations. The use of this method allows for the analyzed policy measures to be contemplated in terms of various criteria and to identify those that best meet the adopted criteria, and thus those that could contribute the most to the stimulation of innovation. The article focuses on the method itself, indicating its flexibility and ease of use, while the analyzed collection of policy measures constitutes only the background of the deliberations.
Highlights
Transport is one of the strategic sectors of the economy [1] which covers several areas, including: economic, political or tourist in the international, national and regional dimensions [2]
As one of the sectors of the European economy that is subject to legal Community regulations [2], the implementation of the concept of the sustainable development of transport constitutes one of the greatest challenges of the European Union’s (EU) transport policy [5,6,7]
Application and Results of the simple additive weighting (SAW) Method in Assessing Policy Measures Focusing on Innovation
Summary
Transport is one of the strategic sectors of the economy [1] which covers several areas, including: economic, political or tourist in the international, national and regional dimensions [2]. As one of the sectors of the European economy that is subject to legal Community regulations [2], the implementation of the concept of the sustainable development of transport constitutes one of the greatest challenges of the European Union’s (EU) transport policy [5,6,7]. The aim of this concept is to create conditions for the efficient, safe, economically effective, and at the same time socially, economically and spatially justified transport of persons and goods within the limits set by the natural resources available for this purpose and the possibility of releasing pollution resulting from this into the environment [8,9]. According to Schumpeter, innovation concerns one of the following five situations [14]:
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