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Governance and Decision-Making in Transportation

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Sustainable Transportation

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Abstract

The transportation system is developed and managed by a wide range of governmental actors and agencies. As transportation crosses administrative boundaries there is a need for coordination of policies and actions between the local, regional, national, and international level. In Chaps. 2–4, the importance of coordinating (or better still, integrating) policy areas within any given level of government to promote sustainable development is identified. Further complexity is added when one considers that the transportation system is owned and operated by a mixture of public and private operators acting within a framework set by different levels of government. The challenge of steering and coordinating this complex system is referred to as governance.

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  1. 1.

    See the Metroplan Orlando website for an example of the long-range transportation plan (LRTP) and the transportation improvement program (TIP), among other programmatic and planning documents, http://www.metroplanorlando.com/plans/ (accessed on April 20, 2015).

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    See the West Yorkshire Local Transportation Plan Partnership for an example of a local transport plan (LTP), http://www.wymetro.com/wyltp/ (accessed on April 20, 2015).

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  1. Department of Transport, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Henrik Gudmundsson

  2. School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

    Ralph P. Hall

  3. Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Greg Marsden

  4. Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas, USA

    Josias Zietsman

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Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R.P., Marsden, G., Zietsman, J. (2016). Governance and Decision-Making in Transportation. In: Sustainable Transportation. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46924-8_5

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