Planning Our Way Ahead: A Review of Thailand's Transport Master Plan for Urban Areas

The tradition of transport planning in Thailand began as recently as 1960 with the Greater Bangkok Plan, and the 1971 Bangkok Transportation Study. Since then the country has incrementally developed its transport planning practice. This paper provides a detailed description of Thailand's transport master plan for urban areas and its study process. It introduces the Office of Traffic and Transport Policy and Planning, which is responsible for formulating the plan. It describes the master plan study process of the regional cities, and provides three case studies in Si Sa Ket, Chiang Mai, and Lampang to illustrate the process in practice. The transport plan of Bangkok, the capital city, is described separately, as it focuses more on the planning of a mass-transit system. The study reveals a number of lessons learned.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.242
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146517305495
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 Jittrapirom Peraphan and Jaensirisak Sittha. Published by Elsevier B.V.
• Authors:
  • Peraphan, Jittrapirom
  • Sittha, Jaensirisak
• Conference:
  • World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2016
  • Location: Shanghai , China
  • Date: 2016-7-10 to 2016-7-15
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 3989-4006
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Master plans; Public transit; Transit operating agencies; Transportation planning; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Bangkok (Thailand); Chiang Mai (Thailand)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01639521
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 2017 2:39PM