Abstract The paper unpacks the planning process into its component parts: model, process, technique, and goals—the “good thing”. The paper advances the concept that planning, policy-making, and organizational restructuring can be analyzed under the same framework. Each of the four components is described and reductionist examples are presented to clarify the intention and to illustrate the technique that the transport analyst teams employ in their work. The examples cover both successes and failures. They point toward the enormous scientific task ahead for planning to become meaningful and relevant to the problems of today. Finally, in the frame of the willingness to pay, the paper puts forward a case for an institutional framework for a financially autonomous road administration. Similarly organized, administered, and managed entities are relevant also for other transport modes.
Model, process, technique, and the good thing
Transportation ; 35 , 3
2008
Article (Journal)
English
Model, process, technique, and the good thing
Online Contents | 2008
|Consortia Regulation - good or bad thing?
British Library Online Contents | 2009
|Safety first: Too much of a good thing?
British Library Online Contents | 2002
Good watchkeeping could be a thing of the past
British Library Online Contents | 2007
Advanced Practice Nursing in Trauma: It's a Good Thing
British Library Online Contents | 2014
|