Reinventing Government Role in Transport Sector: The Way Forward

The main aim of this research lies in developing a structured framework constituting the generic roles (functions and activities) that ought to be pursued by governments in national transport. The paper starts by a world-wide state of the art review of roles played by four departments/ministries of transport in the USA, Japan, Australia and UK. This is followed by discussing three important notions and their effects on government role in the transport sector, namely privatization, sustainability and governance. The framework developed, in this research, classifies the perceived roles of a ministry of transport into three main categories. The first includes those roles that are necessary to enable the performance of the main roles, so called enabling roles. The second category includes the main instrumental roles of the ministry of transport. Main roles can be defined as those roles that represent the core tasks that ought to be mandated to a Ministry of Transport. The third category includes those roles that are supportive of the main roles. Supporting roles can be defined as those roles that are meant to assist in performing the main roles in an efficient and effective manner. The paper concludes by proposing a government reinvention process that involves several important phases and stages required to create the necessary environment for performing such roles.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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• Authors:
  • Abbas, Khaled A
• Conference:
  • 10th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Istanbul , Turkey
  • Date: 2004-7-4 to 2004-7-8
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: 10th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Governance; Government agencies; Governments; Policy; Privatization; Public transit; State of the art; Sustainable development; Transit operating agencies
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084967
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2008 8:14AM