Integrated transport management: Lessons from a Chinese city

Authors

Wei Yang
Wijnand Veeneman
Martin de Jong
Yun Song

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2020

Subject Area

place - asia, place - urban, policy - sustainable, organisation - competition, planning - integration, planning - travel demand management

Keywords

China, Integrated transport policy, Policy packaging, Transport demand management, Infrastructure planning, Multi-level governance

Abstract

Sustainable transport typically requires a broad spectrum of policy measures, with responsibilities shared by different authorities and with various public values competed with each other, such as commuting, health, spatial quality, and economic development. Designing and implementing integrated policy packages, with consideration for the interdependencies between measures and actors is a promising approach and thus an interesting research topic. A large part of the literature on transport policy looks at separate measures and their effects. These measures in reality always work in constellation with other measures and understanding their dependencies in a way to create synergies through packaging has been the topic of theoretical discussions. However, empirical research on policy packaging is sorely lacking. In this paper, we examine the implementation process of packaging of TM measures from the perspective of actors and their distinct roles and interactions. The data is collected by document analysis and interviews with officers in a Chinese city. Several major problems threatening the implementation of policy packaging are detected, including overlooking implementation at district-level, resource competition between measures, and the absence of integrative supervision. It provides a first answer to the discrepancy occurring in the promise of real-world crafting of well-integrated policies for sustainable mobility.

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Recommended Citation

Yang, W., Veeneman, W., de Jong, M., & Song, Y. (2020). Integrated transport management: Lessons from a Chinese city. Research in Transportation Economics, Vol. 83, 100918.