Title:	National Reviews
Authors:	Pascal, Anders
Keywords:	Urban Travel Policies
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	OECD
Description:	This has emerged as an important issue in strategies to improve transport policy in urban areas. In many western European countries decentralisation has played an important role in providing resources for investment in public transport systems and for a balance in overall transport infrastructure investments that best serves local needs. In the USA there is a strong trend towards devolution in transport decision making, from Federal to State, metropolitan area and local levels. State and local governments have wide discretion to invest federal transport funds to meet local priorities (sometimes in competition with longer term, more global environmental priorities). In eastern Europe the last decade has seen withdrawal of central government from local and regional policy making but this has not been accompanied by a transfer of resources or powers to raise finance locally. More recently the granting of powers to charge for parking has led to this becoming an important source of municipal finance in some cities in Central and Eastern Europe. At the other end of the scale, some Swiss cities face difficulties in raising sufficient resources for road maintenance and for the high level of public transport services they provide because unlike Federal or Cantonal levels of government they have no revenue raising powers other than local income and property taxes. A high level task force has been established to find solutions for this and other urban travel problems.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/45912
ISBN:	92-821-0305-6
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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