01046160

Component

The paper presents a discussion of the issues which are involved in developing and implementing a transport policy, a transport plan, or bringing about an institutional change in a transport infrastructure entity. A concept is advanced that planning, policymaking, and organizational restructuring can be analyzed under the same framework: plans should reflect policies, and institutions are the vehicles to help deliver both. In the paper, the planning process is untangled to its elemental parts: model, process, technique, and goals—the good thing. Each component is described briefly and examples are presented to clarify the intention. The paper lays special emphasis and importance on the technique that transport organizations, analyst teams, and consultants employ in their work. Concrete, though condensed, examples are given on successes and failures. These are just beginnings of an enormous task ahead for the profession. Finally, after showing that extant benefit-cost analyses are not based on willingness to pay and, even more fundamentally, an argument that the willingness to pay concept, even if applied correctly, is theoretically unsound, the paper puts forward a case for a new kind of institutional framework and financing of road administration and management entities.

01042056

07-1272

English

26p

2007

Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting

CD-ROM

Appendices (1) ; Figures (4) ; References; Tables (5)

Benefit cost analysis; Implementation; Infrastructure; Policy making; Public transit; Restructuring; Transit operating agencies; Transportation planning

Transportation infrastructure; Willingness to pay

Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2007 Paper #07-1272

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2007 5:53PM