ABSTRACT
Nowadays the concerning about environmental issues are dramatically increasing.
The infrastructure is the backbone of the transport system and it affects the area in which it is, creating a set of macro-implications: Externalities, Impacts, Effects.
This research proposes an integrated approach which evaluates the infrastructures according to the three specific categories written above: economic, environmental and territorial; using different variables.
A “good assessment” uses the EIE cognitive analysis scheme (externalities, impact, effect) and adopts a EET vision (Economics, Environment, Territory). This method may represent the key-point for a good vision, and so a good evaluation, of the land transformation inevitably induced by the creation of a new infrastructure. Moreover, it can point out how creating a new infrastructure could be a positive venture in economic terms, but, at the contrary, could not be environmentally-friendly.
