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PLANNING FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME --FREIGHT. PROCEEDINGS OF SEMINARS G AND T HELD AT THE PTRC SUMMER ANNUAL MEETING, SUSSEX UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND, JULY 14-17, 1986. VOLUME P277

One of the main methodological problems in the process of planning development is the balance between the mechanisms of aggregation and disaggregation of plans at national and regional levels, and of sectorial and multisectorial scopes. Furthermore, the emergent tendency towards decentralisation, both in the process of planning and in the plan's implementation, increase the need for methodologies on local sectorial planning within multisectorial frameworks of regional development. This document is a contribution to the methodologies for planning freight regional systems within the context of developing countries, where the elasticity between the local supply of freight services and the demand produced by new economic activities is scarce. The scope chosen is that of "participating and prospective" planning: from the design of "scenarios" for regional development and a diagnosis of the regional conditions for the production of freight services, patterns are established to conceive instruments, ways of intervention and performance devices for strategies to develop the freight systems in a given region. The design of "scenarios" is built upon the identification of regional objectives, the analysis of the context of the regional demand for transportation, and the formulation of the regional necessary conditions for the production of freight services. At this stage, consultation with the local community becomes essential. The diagnosis is integrated with the identification of the modal and intermodal potential of the present supply, the analysis of regional and interregional chains of transportation, and of the characteristics of the logistics services, and the impact of new investment projects of transportation conceived by the central government but with a regional scope. Subsequently, five instruments are analysed: the integration of a portfolio of investment projects hierarchally arranged, the furnishing of the local freight companies, the improvement of the negotiation, a program of logistic and freight terminals, and a system of regional information for the planning of transportation. Finally, ways of intervention are defined: the programming of direct public investments and the assignment of fostering credits, the reforms of regulations concerning conditions and quality of the freight services, and the agreement with the borrowing companies. In the latter case, emphasis is made on actions of induction of modernisation through the leading regional private enterprises. Although the work is based upon the concrete situation of planning in Mexico, the methodological outline is considered as valid, and of interest, for other countries with a similar level of development.(a) this paper is presented in an abstract form. For the covering abstract of the seminar see IRRD 812667.

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  • Authors:
    • Antun, J P
  • Publication Date: 1986

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  • English

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  • Accession Number: 00481481
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
  • ISBN: 086050-168-X
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS
  • Created Date: Apr 30 1989 12:00AM