Evidence Based Decision Making - Reality or Chimera? Special Seminar, Paris, 16 June 2011

The Seminar brought a small number of leading researchers and policy makers to discuss the relationships between research and policy in the transport sector. The aim was to review in a range of countries recent experiences and practices and any lessons learned to make research work more relevant and policy making more based on good analysis.

What has research offered to policy?

Speaking different languages? Yves CROZET, University of Lyon, Institute of Transport Economics (LET) The role of data Richard THIVIERGE, Transport Canada

Policy making: What does policy want from research?

Has knowledge any power? Arie BLEIJENBERG, TNO, Netherlands Avoiding mistakes, using ex-ante analysis better Alain BONNAFOUS, France Learning from mistakes, using ex-post analysis Werner ROTHENGATTER, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany