Rail
Strategic Infrastructure Planning: International Best Practice
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
23 March 2017
- Systemic risks can be reduced where projects form part of a broad and long-term strategic plan.
- Strategic infrastructure planning carries its own risks, including technology's influence on demand- and supply-side considerations.
- When it works well, strategic planning can set out a stable set of priorities for future investment with durable cross-party support.
- A successful infrastructure planning process balances a stable framework with maintaining flexibility.
- The planning process requires clear objectives, a degree of independence and an open, collaborative approach.
- The planning methodology needs to address risks and uncertainties, take into account binding policy constraints and include considerations of pricing the use of infrastructure.
- A top-down approach to infrastructure planning to complement traditional project by project assessment is essential to a strategic assessment of long-term economic infrastructure needs across sectors.
- Infrastructure planning across sectors can help identify the most important systemic risks early.
- Using analytical methods such as a scenario-based approach to analysis can be helpful in future-proofing infrastructure plans.
- It is important to consider how demand for scarce infrastructure can be managed. Debt management need to be part of any strategic investment plan.
- A top-down approach could foster the development of an analytical framework for investment decisions reflecting both demand and supply side considerations.
Urban Accessibility Measurement: Some Feedback on Data and Visualisation
Presentation, slides, speech,
13 March 2017
Transportation Satellite Account: The Canadian Experience
Presentation, slides, speech,
13 March 2017
Database on Investment in Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean
Presentation, slides, speech,
13 March 2017
Road Construction Cost Data: An Initiative to Break a Research and Policy Deadlock
Presentation, slides, speech,
13 March 2017
Transport Infrastructure Investment and Maintenance 2015 Data Collection
Presentation, slides, speech,
13 March 2017
Alternative Solutions to Airport Saturation: Simulation Models Applied to Congested Airports
Presentation, slides, speech,
9 March 2017
Time to Sweat the Assets? The Analysis of Two Airport Cases of Restricted Capacity in Different Continents
Presentation, slides, speech,
9 March 2017
Economic Benefits of Improved Accessibility to Transport Systems and the Role of Transport in Fostering Tourism for All
Discussion Paper,
27 February 2017