REFLECTIONS ON A METHOD OF APPROACH FOR THE DEFINITION OF AN INTER-CITY FREIGHT TRANSPORT POLICY

REFLEXIONS POUR UNE METHODE D'APPROCHE RELATIVE A LA DEFINITION D'UNE POLITIQUE DE TRANSPORT INTERURBAIN DE MARCHANDISES

The writer, Director of Transport at the French Ministry of Transport, first reviews the many different factors involved in the development of the transport system. He then considers how a long-term policy can be determined on the basis of these contradictory and problematical factors, and proposes a method of "scenarios", based on different objectives and transport methods. From a clear and precise definition of objectives, the constraints in the development of the system must be determined, and for each policy imagined, the difficulties and bottlenecks that may arise. A study made by the Transport Research Institute, based on the 176 positions of the Transport Nomenclature, defined about 15 variables attached to each of these positions. An iterative process identified about ten well-defined groups, each corresponding to a partial market, for which rival transport modes were in competition. Other studies have determined the range of growth in costs by 1980. The object of the "scenario" method is not to define a policy, but to explore the range of possibility, and to detect the dangerous areas.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Transportation Research, Bruges, Belgium, June 1973.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Conference on Transport Research

  Bruges,   Belgium 
• Authors:
  • DOBIAS, G
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Transportation Research, Bruges, Belgium, June 1973.
• Publication Date: 1973-6

Language

• French

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 904-906

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Forecasting; Freight transportation; Mathematical models; Mode choice; Policy; Transportation modes; Transportation policy
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Government policies; National transportation policies
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Policy; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00127012
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Railway Documentation, Selection of
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 18 1975 12:00AM