Data underlying the publication: Beyond face validity: Assessment of a participatory value evaluation for an institutionalized transport conflict

DOI:10.4121/a9379c0e-eed9-44f1-8f9c-975d00884edc.v1
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DOI: 10.4121/a9379c0e-eed9-44f1-8f9c-975d00884edc

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de Ruijter, Annamarie; Tuit, Charlotte; N. (Niek) Mouter (2025): Data underlying the publication: Beyond face validity: Assessment of a participatory value evaluation for an institutionalized transport conflict. Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/a9379c0e-eed9-44f1-8f9c-975d00884edc.v1
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Dataset

The importance of public participation in transport planning continues to increase. Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a relatively new instrument to involve citizens in transport planning. In a PVE, citizens are put into the shoes of a policymaker and see which polices are considered, the impacts of the policies and the constraint that the policymaker faces. Subsequently, citizens are asked to advise the policymaker on which policy options should be chosen and why. So far PVE has been successfully applied in contexts in which citizens and stakeholders broadly agreed on the pursued policy goals. It is, however, unclear whether PVE is equally valuable in contexts in which stakeholders have conflicting interests. This paper investigates whether deploying PVE in an institutionalized transport conflict results in similar benefits and costs as in contexts where stakeholders pursue the same goals.


We studied a PVE application in which 2466 participants provided recommendations to the government about decision-making regarding Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands. Stakeholders were involved in many phases of and decisions on the PVE design process. The aim of this research was twofold. First, to establish whether the benefits of applying PVE in an institutionalized transport conflict outweigh the costs. Second, to develop an instrument to assess the face validity of PVE as experienced by participants. We designed the PVE in the software system WeValuate. We interviewed several stakeholders in a semi-structured manner about their views on the PVE's face validity. We performed the data analyses in STATA, version 16.


We find that PVE can provide similar benefits in the context of an institutionalized conflict compared to cases in which such a conflict was absent. Citizens participated who normally do not participate and the PVE produced useful outcomes for decision-making. However, a notable difference is that the design phase of the PVE involved several feedback rounds which made it much more time-intensive than other cases. Hence, the benefit that PVE requires low time investment of civil servants that emerged in other studies was not applicable when applying PVE to an institutionalized transport conflict setting. Furthermore, stakeholders could not agree on various design choices of the PVE. To satisfy the diverging requests of stakeholders a very lengthy PVE was constructed. As a result, the satisfaction among participants about its face validity was relatively low.

History

  • 2025-09-26 first online, published, posted

Publisher

4TU.ResearchData

Format

Microsoft Excel

Language

nl

Organizations

TU Delft, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Department of Engineering, Systems and Services, Transport and Logistics;
Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands

DATA

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