What’s so funny about peace, love and transport integration?

John Preston

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2010

Subject Area

planning - integration, organisation - governance, policy - sustainable, place - europe

Keywords

Integration, Public transport, Private transport, Governance, Land-use, Sustainability

Abstract

The 1998 White Paper proposed integration as the solution to Great Britain’s land transport problems. Most commentators agree that this much vaunted New Deal for Transport has been a failure. Yet some ten years later policy papers from bodies such as the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Centre for Cities are still proposing integration as a possible panacea. There are a number of reasons for the failure of integrated transport over the last decade. The first is the failure to define the concept. The second is the failure to operationalise the concept. The third is the lack of an evidence base on the success of integrated transport policies. Evidence is now emerging in Britain on the benefits (and indeed the costs) of some aspects of integrated transport policies. The fourth, and perhaps the most crucial, is the lack of will in terms of politicians, civil servants and the public at large, to adopt the behavioural changes necessary for an integrated transport policy to be successful. A series of organisational and funding changes are proposed that could advance the prospects for integration.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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Research in Transportation Economics Home Page: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07398859

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