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Term of the Road Dictionary

criterion

Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / English
Theme : Operations Transport Sustainable Transport
Definition : Factor by reference to which a decision is taken. Notes: 1. Cost-benefit may be used as the sole criterion. In other cases, multicriteria analysis may be carried out, possibly incorporating cost-benefit as one of the criteria. 2. Decision-making criteria are often broken down into monetized criteria and non-monetized criteria.

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