Project
D9 (NRP 41) - Funding tomorrow's transport systems
Funding origin:
Switzerland
STRIA Roadmaps:
Network and traffic management systems (NTM)
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/1997,
End date: 01/01/2001
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
The NRP 41 was launched by the Federal Council at the end of 1995 to improve the scientific basis on which Switzerland's traffic problems might be solved, taking into account the growing interconnection with Europe, ecological limits, and economic and social needs.
The NRP 41 aimed to become a think-tank for sustainable transport policy. Each one of the 54 projects belongs to one of the following six modules:
- A Mobility: Socio-institutional Aspects
- B Mobility: Socio-economical Aspects
- C Environment: Tools and Models for Impact Assessments
- D Political and Economic Strategies and Prerequisites
- E Traffic Management: Potentials and Impacts
- F Technologies: Potentials and Impacts
- M Materials
- S Synthesis Projects
Objectives:
The following study treats the questions 'who is funding what in Swiss transport policy' and 'who should be funding what in the future'.
The study:
- makes a survey on transport funding in Switzerland, the challenges Swiss transport policy is facing, and some trends in European transport funding,
- analyses the weaknesses of the present transport funding system, mainly in the field of road infrastructure,
- presents a range of institutional and financial reforms that lead to a more cost-efficient and user-paid transport system,
- shows the time-horizon needed for the political implementation of those reforms.
The study is based on economic theory as well as on an empirical database from Switzerland and abroad.
Methodology:
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