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 Apply common guidelines for project appraisal and assessment for the OIC members.
 Sustainable Development Goals should be mainstreamed into NTI plans.
 The plans, the underlying models and scenarios should be made robust to external
changes and shocks.
 NTI plans should mention project evaluation criteria and performance indicators.
6. Data collection
 Data collection is key to decision making and should be done in a systematic way.
 Develop common guidelines for data collection for the OIC members.
 Transportation data should be collected periodically (annually or more frequent)
 Data should be the basis of NTI planning and of the design of transport systems.
 Make use of new technologies and share data with the private domain (open access)
as this will help the matching the infrastructure and the systems/assets making use of
it.
 A most significant change will be the use of big data or mobile data in transport
planning. Real time dynamic planning, the use of swarm intelligence and planning for
autonomous vehicles.
Figure 45: Technology and Innovation in Transport Planning
Source: The Being City Lab
7. Monitoring and evaluation
 Transport plans should be annually revised to keep it up to date and maintain
relevance.
 Setting up an independent (external) agency to monitor and evaluate whether the
implementation of the plan is effective on achieving the expected results.