Integrating Transport in the City [electronic resource]: Reconciling the Economic, Social and Environmental Dimensions /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Urban Affairs Division.Content Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2000.
Congestion in cities is a problem of growing importance. New infrastructure for transport however often gives rise to conflicts about how the cost of new services will be met by the public, and about how the demand for travel can be reconciled with efforts to improve the social and environmental quality of life in cities. Unless these conflicts can be managed, public-private partnerships for investment in new infrastructure will be handicapped. The way forward requires a mix of strategies involving better information and communication with the public, better design of projects to take social and environmental objectives into account, a more comprehensive approach to urban development rather than a sectoral strategy, and a better exchange of expertise between private and public sectors. This book is based on a series of case studies of both successes and failures in countries such as Australia, Japan, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. To inform this major debate and help design new strategies for transport integration in the city, this book puts forward the most promising ways to: - respond to urban travel problems; - enhance public/private partnership; and - raise social acceptability of urban transport infrastructure and road tolls.
Preface; Executive Summary; 1. Problems of urban travel; 2. The question of financing; 3. The question of acceptability of new infrastructure projects and of urban tolls; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I. Responding to urban travel problems; Chapter 1. From Problems to Solutions; List of Tables; Table 1. City characteristics (Optima study); Tabl e 2. Measures tested (Optima study); Table 3. Contributions to optimal strategies (Optima study); Table 4. Cities with measures included in optimal strategies (Optima study); Chapter 2. A Basis for the Strategy; List of Boxes
Examples: The Prado-Carénage and TEO projectsBox 1. The Paris urban area: the principle long-term objectives on transport; Box 2. Examples of combined transport modes in Canada; Box 3. France's urban transport plans; Box 4. The example of Seattle; Part II. Public/private partnerships: opportunities and problems; Chapter 3. Finding Suitable Financing; Box 5. Melbourne City Link; Table 5. Categories of financing model for road transport infrastructure; Table 6. Difficulties associated with the different financing models; Chapter 4. Value Capture
Chapter 5. The Context of Public Private PartnershipBox 6. The British experience with the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and risk shifting; Part III. The social acceptability of urban transport infrastructure projects and road tolls; Chapter 6. Increasing the Social Acceptability of Projects; Box 7. Stockholm: limitations and failure of "top down" agreement; Chapter 7. The Acceptability of Urban Toll Roads; Box 8. User financing of urban transport infrastructure in Norway; Chapter 8. Public Dialogue and Consultation Instruments
Box 9. An example of public consultation in the Netherlands: the Betuwe Line projectPart IV. Conclusions; A Shift in the Roles of Public Players and Private Operators?; Annex. List of Written and Oral Contributions to the Seminar; Notes; Bibliography
"Synthesis of work of the international seminar organised jointly by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Urban Affairs Division of the Territorial Development Service, the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing (France), Forward Study Unit of the Directorate for Economic and International Affairs, and the "Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations" (CDC, France)."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121).
Congestion in cities is a problem of growing importance. New infrastructure for transport however often gives rise to conflicts about how the cost of new services will be met by the public, and about how the demand for travel can be reconciled with efforts to improve the social and environmental quality of life in cities. Unless these conflicts can be managed, public-private partnerships for investment in new infrastructure will be handicapped. The way forward requires a mix of strategies involving better information and communication with the public, better design of projects to take social and environmental objectives into account, a more comprehensive approach to urban development rather than a sectoral strategy, and a better exchange of expertise between private and public sectors. This book is based on a series of case studies of both successes and failures in countries such as Australia, Japan, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. To inform this major debate and help design new strategies for transport integration in the city, this book puts forward the most promising ways to: - respond to urban travel problems; - enhance public/private partnership; and - raise social acceptability of urban transport infrastructure and road tolls.
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