The Guidance indicates that strategies should provide an overview of how the measures making up the strategy interrelate, contribute to addressing problems and opportunities and meet objectives. They should address modal interaction and policy linkages. Strategies vary in the extent to which they are well integrated and coherent. Some are well integrated, flow from objectives and contain good modal coverage and consideration of policy linkages. Others contain many of these elements but do not clearly link them together into a strategy.
Some strategies have yet to be developed beyond a basic analysis of issues.
A few strategies which present proposals for action lack coherence or a clear relationship to objectives. The best strategies tend to be those which contain clear statements of policies and actions on individual modes which are linked back explicitly to objectives to whose achievement the specific actions will contribute. Good strategies also show clearly the interrelationships between modes, contain measures aimed at integration within and between modes, and present an appropriate overall balance of action. Some potentially good strategies are weakened by poor presentation. The clearest and simplest presentations tend to be those which contain an overall statement of strategy plus a series of statements on individual modes and policy linkages, each of which is specifically related back to key strategy objectives.