IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION: CANADA'S EXPERIENCE

Those in the transportation field face decisions that tend to be linked to fundamental questions dealing with predicting or determining. We live in a dynamic world, a world of continuous change. The transport sector, with its derived demand, is dragged into this spiral of changes. This need for constant review means ongoing analysis, ongoing research, and ongoing information requirements. The role and importance of analysis in transportation has been and will continue to be of capital importance to the legislative process. This conference presentation uses Canada's experience of recent years to illustrate this point. It then points out lessons learned, transportation challenges being faced in Canada, and some of Canada's recent initiatives toward filling major data gaps.

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• Authors:
  • ROY, R
• Conference:
  • Information Requirements for Transportation Economic Analysis
  • Location: Irvine, California
  • Date: 1999-8-19 to 1999-8-21
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: p. 19-21
• Monograph Title: INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSPORTATION ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 21
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Economic analysis; Legislation; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data needs
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00796900
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309071240
• Files: NTL, TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 3 2000 12:00AM