Financial and Institutional Measures for Sustainable Urban Transport

Abstract

This chapter deals with Asian experiences dealing with financing and institutional issues as they relate to creating a more sustainable development condition. This chapter covers financing measures for urban transport (including experience with public private partnerships in delivering infrastructure), urban administration and governance, management of transportation systems, the relation of the transportation planning processes to increasing sustainability, and the impact of urban transportation planning on poverty. The topics that were covered by this chapter are complex and require an understanding of multiple perspectives. The chapter demonstrated that an approach that integrates the viewpoints of stakeholders can be expected to be the most sustainable, simply because it reduces conflict and thus manages the cost to society. However, the chapter also demonstrated that the method for bringing about this kind of integration is still a work-in-progress and researchers, administrators and stakeholders should keep an open mind about what can and cannot work.