Selected international transport investment and funding frameworks and outcomes

This report has been commissioned by the National Transport Secretariat to provide advice on international best practice in transport investment and funding. The report provides a detailed overview of the transport policy objectives of seven countries, their transport budgets, policy outcomes and identifies a number of issues and practical examples of transport investment methodologies and strategies. The seven countries are the USA, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, Denmark, Germany and the European Union. It is acknowledged that the European Union is not a country but it does have a very clear transport policy and approach to funding and investment which is relevant to the debate in Australia. All the countries examined in this report are having difficulties in formulating a coherent response to the policy debate around growth in demand for transport. Transport investment and funding is recognised as the key to "breaking the logjam" and there are some impressive policies and strategies in our seven countries that are of relevance to the debate in Australia. In our report we take a very clear view that the policies reviewed are not being judged on some scale of acceptability or desirability. They are taken as "given". Our interest is to identify what is really interesting and important for the debate in Australia around best practice. In section 9 of the report we identify clear, practical funding and investment initiatives that we believe have the potential to transfer to Australia. The initiatives are in place or about to be put in place and are the result of many years of debate and research in their respective countries and they are designed to solve the same set of problems that Australia is also tackling.

• Record URL:
  http://worldtransportjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/australia.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Eco-Logica

  Liverpool,    
• Authors:
  • Whitelegg, J
• Publication Date: 2003-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 25p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation; Financing; Investments; Policy
• Uncontrolled Terms: International comparison
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ATRI Terms: Evaluation; International comparison; Investment; Policy; Transport funding
• Subject Areas: Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01573183
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 13 2015 3:45PM