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Public Engagement (PE) is the process of identifying and embedding stakeholder concerns, needs and values in the transport decision-making process. It is a two-way communication process that provides a mechanism for exchanging information and promoting stakeholder interaction with the formal decision-makers and the transport project team. The overall goal of engagement is to achieve a transparent decision-making process with greater input from stakeholders and their support of the decisions that are taken.
The first objective of this contribution to estimate the benefits and costs of PE to be embedded within a traditional Cost-Benefit Analysis. Indeed, in the transport sector, it is consolidated that a good decision-making process foresees the involvement of the main stakeholders, but what are the benefits and costs of the PE ? How to quantify these impacts and explicitly take them into account in a cost-benefit analysis ? In this
contribution, an attempt to answer these questions is provided.
In a context in which the climate is constantly changing together with the increase in the occurrence of extraordinary meteorological events, infrastructures are subject to negative events. Specifically, in recent years, in certain areas, calamitous events have occurred that have caused collapses, complete or partial, within the infrastructural networks. To cope with these calamities, public administrations, associations,
organizations and other bodies, collaborating with each other, aim at restoring the original performance of the systems. In particular, the "critical infrastructures", i.e. those systems related to communications, energy, health, information technology, transport and water systems that provide basic services for the economy, security and stability of a nation, should be safeguarded from disasters.
The second objective of this contribution is to propose an application of the Cost-Benefit Analysis for providing resilience of a transport infrastructure.

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