Modelling best practice: The benefits of peer pressure

Infrastructure investment analyst Robert Bain describes a practice increasingly adopted by those who commission transport modelling studies to test and evaluate fitness-for-purpose and give additional confidence in terms of predictive capability and credibility: the ‘peer review’

Rob Bain

Rob Bain

Professional peer reviews are commonplace in many disciplines: academia, medicine, scientific publishing and funding, accounting, law and, progressively more, in engineering. The review process centres on a critical evaluation of professional practice – or a work product – by suitably qualified and impartial individuals from within the same field. The objective is to ensure correctness and completeness, to substantiate the quality of technical analysis and uphold best-practice...

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