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Title:

Issues in Formulating Urban Transportation Master Plans in Emerging Economies: Experiences in Colombo Metropolitan Area

Accession Number:

01555521

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to identify issues in preparing transportation plans for urban areas in emerging economies where the economy is vigorously growing by studying the urban transportation master plan formulation for the Colombo Metropolitan Area. Contrasting with developed countries, it is likely that there will be no or only weakly documented urban planning regulations. If that is the case, urban structure and land use plans must be prepared in order to facilitate the transportation planning. This can be a good opportunity to prepare land use and transportation integrated plans. Considering the human resources required for master plan formulation, time schedule for planning, required accuracy of data, key projects which affect the overall master plan scenario and the requests of policy makers; it is highly recommended to quantitatively forecast future transportation demand and evaluate projects using scenario-based and corridor-based evaluations, bearing in mind assumptions made for the estimation. The experiences of other urban areas also help provide insight on the direction of the future transportation systems. It is also recommended to allot ample time for communication with policy makers and the public involvement process by using a strategic environmental assessment process. Finally, it is proposed to study further the legal, institutional and financial aspects to implement and manage the plan. Examples in other countries imply the possibility of a new organization in charge of master plan monitoring and data management.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-1925

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kawaguchi, Hirohisa
Asada, Yoshihisa
Umemura, Junya
Kov, Monyrath
Jayasundara, Mudiyanselage Thilakarath Banda
Ono, Tomohiro
Fukuhara, Saori
Ralapanawe, Namal

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Emerging economies

Geographic Terms:

Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-1925

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:41PM