FORESIGHT FOR TRANSPORT - A Foresight Exercise to Help Forward Thinking in Transport and Cross-Sectoral Integration
Overview
Background & policy context:
The FORESIGHT for TRANSPORT project was launched in 2001 under the 'Competitive and Sustainable Growth Programme' (1998-2000) of the European Community with the main objective to organise and run a strategic dialogue in the form of a foresight exercise on the influence of non-transport factors and policy on mobility and transport.
Objectives:
The FORESIGHT for TRANSPORT project had three strategic objectives:
- To set up and run a strategic dialogue with the participation of experts from different disciplines as well as representatives of business and industry, policy-makers and interest organisations that identifies the critical external factors that influence mobility and transport policy and specifies the contextual scenario conditions within which these developments take place.
- To use the input from the strategic dialogue to specify the impact of external developments and associated trends on mobility and the transport system and elaborate the concept of the transport impact pathway.To develop a procedure for monitoring external developments and their impact on transport in the future.
The following four policy areas delineate the original scope of the project: EU enlargement, Energy and Environment, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Decision-Making in a Multi-Level Governance Context.
The time framework of the foresight exercise was the time between now and 2020+ distinguished between the short-term (2004-2009), medium-term (2010-2019) and long-term (2020+). The geographical scope has been the enlarged European Union.
Methodology:
The project was implemented following the foresight methodology and related tools.
Its implementation entailed the organisation of thematic expert panel consultations on the topics of enlargement, environment and energy, multilevel governance, information and communication technologies and time dynamics, a Delphi survey involving 165 experts around Europe as well as the establishment of a meta-database system with information on indicators that can be used to monitor developments in fields of relevance for transport and mobility.
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