Model, Process, Technique, and the Good Thing

This paper uses a reductionist approach to "unpack" the road administration planning process into its component parts: model, process, technique, and goals. The author advances the concept that planning, policy-making, and organizational restructuring can be analyzed under the same framework. Each of the four components is described and examples are presented to clarify the intention and to illustrate the technique that the transport analyst teams employ in their work. The examples cover both successes and failures, and point toward the enormous scientific task ahead for planning to become meaningful and relevant to today's challenges. Finally, in the frame of the willingness to pay, the paper presents a case for an institutional framework for a financially autonomous road administration.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-008-9159-7
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00494488
• Authors:
  • Talvitie, Antti
• Publication Date: 2008-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 375-393
• Serial:
  • Transportation
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISSN: 0049-4488
  • EISSN: 1572-9435
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/11116

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Highway departments; Highway planning; Institutional issues; Organization; Planning methods; Reorganization; Traffic models; Transportation policy
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01104516
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 17 2008 9:24AM