| April 2012
Making Reliability Part of Transport Policy
Most of us face unreliable travel services in our daily lives.
Unexpected delays make us miss a train or arrive late for work.
Whether for business meetings, social events or deliveries of
goods, reliability is a key quality of seamless transport. A
review of policies in OECD countries shows, however, that only
few countries explicitly incorporate reliability into transport
policy making. The Policy Brief outlines the findings of research undertaken at the International Transport Forum.
Read the full Policy Brief
(free download)
See also:
Improving Reliability on Surface Transport Networks,
OECD/International Transport Forum, 2010 (pdf)
Improving Reliability on Surface Transport Networks. Executive Summary
International Meeting on Travel Time Reliability - World View and SHRP2,
Washington D.C., 23 January 2011
Incorporating Reliability into Cost-Benefit Assessment: State of Practice and Recent Developments
(Presentation at TRB, Washington D.C., January 2012)
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| October 2011
Do car scrapping
schemes help
the environment and increase safety?
Scrappage programmes aimed to stimulate spending during a
downturn in car sales as a result of the economic recession.
Many governments introduced incentive schemes, offering
consumers cash or discounts for trading in their old car for a
new one. Besides aiming to bolster demand, claims of
environmental and safety benefits were associated
with such schemes to enhance their attractiveness.
But what was the exact impact for environment and safety? And
could it have been even stronger? This Policy Brief
presents the results of an in-depth study that comes to some
interesting conclusions.
Read the full Policy Brief
(free download)
The study follows our Think
Tank‘s 1999 work, highlighting the high cost
of addressing envrionmental goals through such schemes.
See also:
Car Fleet Renewal Schemes: Environmental and Safety Impacts.
France, Germany and the United States
(ITF/FIA, 2011)
Cleaner Cars: Fleet Renewal and Scrappage Schemes. Guide to
Good Practice. (ECMT 1999)
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