TRANSPORT POLICY: FACTS, FRAMEWORKS, ECONOMICS

Professional contributions to the formulation of transport policy should be based on up-to-date corporate data on land use, traffic generation and "modal split"; those form an essential base for engineering, economic and environmental assessments. The validity of the computed costs and benefits from investments in the hierarchies of transportation networks and transport systems will reflect the national relevance and quality of the data banks and the component items of procedures used in assessments. The use of "frameworks" in assessments is recommended for all forms of transportation network and transport system. Their composition should include environmental, social and other qualitative factors, as well as the results of traffic, construction and economic analyses. Their application to trunk roads in the United Kingdom is described. The use of financial incentives to improve the general image of public transport and to encourage a shift in modal split is discussed. Behavioural surveys of time values and priority ratings for modal choice and work journeys are described. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 288720. (TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Annual Transportation Convention held at Milner Park Showgrounds, Johannesburg 25-29 July 1983, Volume 1.
• Corporate Authors:

  Council for Scientific & Industrial Res S Africa

  P.O. Box 395
  Pretoria,   South Africa 
• Authors:
  • WILLIAMS, TEH
• Publication Date: 1983

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 161-172
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Council for Scientific & Industrial Res S Africa
  • Issue Number: S316
  • Publisher: Council for Scientific & Industrial Res S Africa

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Benefits; Conferences; Costs; Data collection; Economic analysis; Environment; Framed structures; Incentives; Information, data, and knowledge; Land use; Modal split; Socioeconomic factors; Surveys; Transportation policy; Trip generation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Environmental data; Socioeconomic data
• Old TRIS Terms: Framework method
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 263: Economics of transport; 2455: Environment; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 244: Financing; 356: Land use; 675: Modal split; 1054: Network (traffic); 173: Policy; 744: Public transport; 2253: Sociology; 1155: Transport; 1145: Transport mode
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Economics; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00471089
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 1988 12:00AM