Title: Planning, Managing, and Communicating Together: The "Results Chain" as an Alternative Tool for Regional Transport Planning
Abstract: Regional transportation plans are expected to rally more and more stakeholders for several reasons. First they involve financial and technical resources at all levels of governance (national, sub-national, regional and local), and second because such plans are strongly sufficient in mobilizing citizens with concrete assignment of infrastructures and effective in politically rallying regional projects developers, governmental and non-governmental organizations. Finally, the consolidation of public consultation practices in recent years as well as strong requirements and focus on environment and safety/security issues, have led a significant number of new players and experts to join the planning table. Nevertheless, the traditional approach to transport planning still faces a series of difficulties. A first concern is the multiplication of textual documents in order to target different stakeholders in diverse circumstances. A second difficulty can be connected with the non-suitability of some governmental tools (e.g. financial programming) with the main transportation plan. Planners also have to face the difficulty caused by the updating of regional planning material following fast changes occurring in the course of the long term planning process. Ultimately, citizens and non-specialists often have to deal with the non-friendly character of typical transportation plan manuscript. The paper will present the main features, advantages and limits of the tool developed and explain how such an instrument may find its application in the European context of regional planning and multicultural cooperation.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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