Appropriate national policy frameworks for sustainable urban mobility plans

European Transport Research Review

Original Paper

Thomas Durlin¹  Laura Delgado²  Jan-Willem van der Pas³  Mircea Enache⁴  Anthony May⁵  Susanne Boehler-Baedeker⁶ 

[1] Cerema, Direction Territoire et ville, 2 rue Antoine Charial, 69426, Lyon Cedex 03, France;Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (CRTM), Plaza Descubridor Diego de Ordas 3, 28003, Madrid, Spain;DTV Consultants, Markendaalseweg 44, 4811 KC, Breda, The Netherlands;EMI Systems, 20817, Bethesda, MD, USA;The Center of Excellence in Planning, Bucharest, Romania;Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, ENG, UK;Rupprecht Consult Forschung und Beratung GmbH, Clever Straße 13-15, 50668, Cologne, Germany;

关键词: Urban transport;    Policy framework;    Governance;    European cities;   

DOI  :  10.1007/s12544-017-0224-1

 received in 2016-09-29, accepted in 2017-01-04,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

ObjectiveThis paper develops recommendations which would enable national governments to support individual cities in their development of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. It draws on the work of an Advisory Group of the European Commission.MethodsNational governments have the power to set the context in which cities develop their urban transport plans. However national governments often fail to provide the support needed by cities and differ widely in their approaches. An Advisory Group to the European Commission has looked specifically at the evidence, developed recommendations which the Commission might offer to national governments, and considered how national governments can be encouraged to adopt them. We consider the evidence on the barriers which result from inadequate policy support, propose a draft set of recommendations, test them against current practice in six European countries, and draw conclusions.ResultsMost of the data used in the paper draws on the earlier work of the ECMT and the EC. The paper summarises the analysis of this information by the Advisory Group and presents the resulting nine recommendations and 20 criteria. It assesses the current situation in the six countries against these 20 criteria, discusses the differences between countries, and highlights the ten criteria on which performance generally is weakest. It concludes by suggesting ways in which the Commission might focus its advice to national governments, and in which national governments might learn from one another.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s) 2017