Rail
Transit-Oriented Development and Accessibility: Case studies from Southeast Asian cities
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
8 October 2023
- Ensure sufficient availability of public transport and infrastructure for active modes.
- Integrate transport planning with land use planning for co-ordinated implementation of measures.
- Embrace disruptive mobility trends in ways that ensure improved accessibility.
- Collect more and better-quality data on urban mobility to underpin transit-oriented development.
- Learn from international experiences with transit-oriented development and apply them locally.
Zero Carbon Supply Chains
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
27 June 2021
- A more proactive strategy from the port authority.
- Stronger involvement of the city administration in zero carbon freight.
- Facilitation of zero carbon freight transport by the federal government.
Jousting with Dragons: A Resilience Engineering approach to managing SMS in the transport sector
Discussion Paper,
6 August 2017
Modern Tram and Public Transport Integration in Chinese Cities: A Case Study of Suzhou
Discussion Paper,
30 July 2017
Estableciendo la Agencia Reguladora del Transporte Ferroviario de México
Case-Specific Policy Analysis,
9 March 2016
Establishing Mexico’s Regulatory Agency for Rail Transport
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
29 February 2016
- Any reform of the rail concessioning system must preserve the current high level of performance.
- Accept price discrimination to ensure efficiency, with the regulatory agency to adjudicate what prices are reasonable.
- Focus regulation on cases where effective competition does not already exist.
- Collect adequate financial and operating data on the rail companies as the basis for effective regulatory decisions.
- Consider cutting the cost of regulation by including an arbitration mechanism in any further regulatory reform.
- Consider inter-switching rules in any further regulatory reform.
- Interchange traffic rights should not be expected to be used for shippers to specify routes.
- Resource the new regulator with sufficient expertise to convince the courts that its decisions are sound.
Appraising Transformational Projects: The Case of the Grand Paris Express
Case-Specific Policy Analysis,
1 November 2014
The Evolution of London’s Crossrail Scheme and the Development of the Department for Transport’s Economic Appraisal Methods
Discussion Paper,
1 November 2011
High-Speed Inter-City Transport System in Japan Past, Present and the Future
Discussion Paper,
1 December 2009
Competitive Interaction between Airports, Airlines and High-Speed Rail
Roundtable Report,
4 November 2009